After the tremendous popular success of theFant?mas novels, both of the major Frenchfilm studios — Pathé and Gaumont —vied for the rights to produce films basedon the series. Gaumont won, and fromApril 1913 to May 1914 Louis Feuilladedirected five Fant?mas films which criticDavid Thomson has described as "the firstgreat movie experience."
On the night of his untimely and mysterious death in post Civil War New Orleans, world chess champion PAUL MORPHY'S exciting and tortured life is reviewed. Known as the greatest chess player in the modern era, Morphy was a multidimensional genius prodigy.
