Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard is the third film in André Hunebelle's trilogy about the master criminal Fantômas, following Fantomas (1964) and Fantomas Unleashed (1965). This time the shape-shifting villain demands a "life tax" from the world's wealthiest people, and those who refuse to pay are killed. Commissioner Juve, accompanied by journalist Fandor and his fiancée Hélène, travels to a Scottish castle to protect its wealthy owner and to try once again to capture Fantômas. The chase unfolds around the castle and its eerie surroundings, with Fantômas using his disguises and macabre tricks to torment Juve.

Jean Marais plays both Fantômas and Fandor, as well as further roles, while Louis de Funès returns as the bumbling Commissioner Juve and Mylène Demongeot appears as Hélène. Françoise Christophe, Jean-Roger Caussimon and Robert Dalban round out the credited cast of twenty-five. Hunebelle directed from a screenplay by Jean Halain and Pierre Foucaud, with Alain Poiré, Hunebelle and Paul Cadéac producing for the French and Italian companies behind the series.

Released in March 1967, the film runs 104 minutes and mixes adventure, comedy, crime and fantasy. Its ratings are consistent and modest across both platforms, at 6.7 out of 10 on IMDb from around 8,700 votes and also 6.7 out of 10 on TMDB, though from a much smaller base of roughly 585 votes. Hunebelle continued directing afterwards, with Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo the following year.