I have always wanted to see this, and it popped up on sale while I was trawling through the bottom of Amazon the other night.
Judex (real name Jacques de Trémeuse) is a fictional French vigilante hero created by Louis Feuillade and Arthur Bernède for the 1916 silent film serial of the same name. Judex (whose name is Latin for “judge”) is a mysterious avenger who dresses in black and wears a wide-brimmed hat and cloak. He was possibly conceived as a heroic version of the criminal character Fantômas, about whom Feuillade had directed the popular 1913 serial Fantômas. The character has since appeared in other films, in novels, on stage and in comic books. Judex may have been an inspiration for the American pulp hero The Shadow, who was himself an inspiration for Batman
A 4K restoration of a black and white film serial that’s over a hundred years old. That is an amazing thing. UK only. But if you have a multiregion player you can probably figure it out.
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