Nuits Rouges
Nuits Rouges is a 1974 French-Italian crime thriller film directed by Georges Franju. The film was released in the U.S. in an English-dubbed version by New Line Cinema under the title Shadowman in 1975.
It is an adaptation of a 1973 French-Italian-Yugoslav TV mini-series titled "L'Homme sans visage".
Premise
Paul de Borrego is a scholar whose field of research is the history of Templars. His discoveries are used by a criminal organisation led by the mysterious Faceless Man to help the latter expand his army of killers composed of people with dead brains.Cast
- Gayle Hunnicutt as the woman
- Jacques Champreux as the Faceless Man
- Josephine Chaplin as Martine Leduc
- Ugo Pagliai as Paul de Borrego
- Gert Froebe as Police commissioner Sorbier
Production
Nuits Rouges was filmed in 1973. The film is a 100-minute theatrical version of a film originally commissioned for television. The budget for the film was so modest that Franju had to film all interiors of the film on a studio set.Jacques Champreux who plays one the lead roles, had directed the series that inspired the film. He also had worked on Franju's Judex, which was also based on a film series.
Nuits Rouges is Franju's last feature film.