Claude Guillemot – La brigade des maléfices (1971)
DVD 1
Les disparus de Rambouillet – 53 min
That’s the first episode I Watch from this old french TV series from the seventies. I don’t remind it when I was a kid. Well it’s not charmless, but it grew very old, if I explain it in the right way. A story of mystery, with much senseless and humor, a show for the whole family, kids, parents grand parents…I am sure to see all of them, but am not sure if I’ll comment them all. This episode is about disappearing folks in Rambouillet forest, near Paris. So a special squad from the police headquarters is in charge of those missing persons. What could I add more ? One little weird thing, in line of this TV series: the director – Claude Guillemot – himself went in the twilight zone – disappeared – during seventeen years, between 70 and 87, before a comeback. Where the hell did he go during all that time. In Rambouillet forest? by IMDB user GUENOT PHILIPPE
La septième chaîne – 1 h 01
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Rochemont a tué sa femme parce qu’elle le trompait avec un acteur de la télévision. Muselier conclut au crime passionnel avec troubles mentaux. Paumier rattache l’affaire à d’autres meurtres où l’assassin met en cause la télévision. Il retrouve la trace de son vieil ennemi Diablegris qui précisément, sous le nom de Diablevert, tient une boutique de location de postes de télévision. Le poste équipé pour recevoir la septième chaîne est maintenant chez les Tourmelon, des jeunes mariés. Grâce à ce poste, Diablevert peut intervenir dans la vie du ménage. En bricolant son propre poste, Paumier arrive lui aussi à capter la septième chaîne.
Voir Vénus et mourir – 1 h 11
Don’t misunderstand me, it’s not a masterpiece that I am talking about. It’s corny, lousy, tongue in cheek topic, old fashioned french cute crap, but very entertaining. Philippe Clay is here exquisite as a crook who opens a travel agency which proposes interstellar journeys to Venus. An exquisite and very funny crook, I assure you. Our lead policemen of the special anti evil squad track him as a notorious crook and get help from a gorgeous and mysterious gal, who also seeks revenge from the embezzler Clay who cheat her father a long time ago. I really enjoyed this very old fashioned show from the early sixties. I will probably comment other épisodes of this series. by IMDB user GUENOT PHILIPPE
DVD 2
La Créature – 53 min
I have already commented the first three épisodes of this french TV show from 1970. I did not, think after the first episode, that the other ones would be so fun, son unusual. Yes, so enjoyable. Such as this one, starring Claude Brasseur and his daddy Pierre, whose it was here one of his last performance. As he did in a previous episode, Dadddy Brasseur plays here a mysterious evil shop owner who sells something very particular to lonely men. Instead of selling home robots for cooking for instance, he proposes to his customers a pretty gal, gorgeous young woman who is able to cook, house clean, clothes clean, electricity facilities repair…So our evil character rents this human robot in a mysterious purpose. The only clue for the lead investigators is that mysterious gal leads the men she works for to suicide… Deliciously corny but so riveting… See you tomorrow for the next episode. But it also appears that the Pierre Brasseur character is a sort of equivalent of professor Moriarty – remember the Sherlock Holmes series. A kind of Némésis for the lead hero investigators. by IMDB user GUENOT PHILIPPE
Les dents d’Alexis – 52 min
I note a change in the atmosphere of this very short TV show. Up to now, it was rather funny despite some occasional death from unnatural causes. Corny, but funny. I enjoyed it very much. This episode is turned in a more specific way to the serious crime case, with of course a weird line. Such as this one involving a new age vampire who seeks after fresh blood, of course. The show begins with a hold up pulled by a bunch of authentic hoodlums, against a blood bank, for the count of the evil lead character. And this time, it’s not the same character as the one we saw in the previous episode: remember Pierre Brasseur. The famous cabaret leader Jean Marie Rivière plays here a high scale armed robber named Pierrot La valise, a sort of homage to the true gangster Pierre Loutrel, a notorious hoodlum who terrorized the Paris banks just after WW2. Such as this other character here named Joe Attila, in homage also to Joe Attia, the accomplice to the same Pierre Loutrel. by IMDB user GUENOT PHILIPPE
Le fantôme du HLM – 53 min
It seems that this french TV series was aired during the 1971 summer holidays, that maybe explains the few audiences who were interested in. And the re airing occurred also during following summer vacations. so, again, few audiences…Anyway it only shortened this TV show. This very last episode is really one of the best of the whole six. Lousy, as I have already said, yes, yes, yes, but I regret that it was not longer. No evil character here, such as the previous épisodes, but only a cute ghost story. An old man who refused to sell his antic mansion dies and his house is destroyed to build a gigantic a tower. And guess what, the ghost of a man from the seventeenth century and in costume, haunts each of the tower apartments, spreading confusion among the people living here…Very entertaining, especially when the ghost discovers the new invention of modern era. Tongue in cheek at the most, but so amusing. No really inquest here, so as we had in the previous tales of this too soon gone funny TV show. by IMDB user GUENOT PHILIPPE
DVD Source: INA Boxset, DVD9
DVD Format: PAL, 4:3, Color
DVD Audio: Stereo, French AC3
Program: DVD Shrink
Menus: Untouched
Video: Untouched
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:French