Feuillade didn't just direct thrillers and serials like FANTOMAS. He also directed short pictures starring René Dary as a lovable scamp, who gets into all sorts of amusing mischief, like this one, where he's firing a shotgun inside the house and papa tells him he can only aim at targets after he knocks down a chandelier. What's a boy to do when a target gets on the back of the maid-of-all-work's dress?
What hilarity! Still, I feel better about a six-year-old with a shotgun than Ben Turpin, and this was a popular series, as was another one about Bout-de-Zan, after Dary got old and grizzled and sevenish. He returned to the screen twenty years later and had quite a career, including TOUCHEZ PAS LE GRISBI, so there were second acts in France at any rate.
What hilarity! Still, I feel better about a six-year-old with a shotgun than Ben Turpin, and this was a popular series, as was another one about Bout-de-Zan, after Dary got old and grizzled and sevenish. He returned to the screen twenty years later and had quite a career, including TOUCHEZ PAS LE GRISBI, so there were second acts in France at any rate.
