About the Actor

A native of Cherbourg, France, Marais starred in several movies directed by Jean Cocteau, for a time his lover and a lifelong friend, most famously Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Orphée (1949). Marais played over 100 roles in film and on television, and also was known for work in other areas of artistic expression, such as writing, painting and sculpture.
In the 1950s, Marais became a star of swashbuckling pictures, enjoying great box office popularity in France. He performed his own stunts. In the 1960s, he played the famed villain of the Fantômas trilogy. In 1963, he was a member of the jury at the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival.
After 1970, Marais's on-screen performances became few and far between, as he preferred concentrating on his stage work. He kept performing on stage until his eighties, also working as a sculptor. His sculpture "Le passe muraille" (The Walker Through Walls) can be seen in the Montmatre Quarter of Paris. In 1985, he was the head of the jury at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.
He was featured in the 1995 documentary "Screening at the Majestic", which is included on the 2003 DVD release of the restored print of Beauty and the Beast. Marais appears on the cover sleeve of The Smiths single This Charming Man.
Marais died from cardiovascular disease in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes. He is interred there at Vallauris cemetery.

About the Director

André Hunebelle was a French director. He was born on 1 September 1896 in Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine), and died on 27 November 1985 in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes).
Hunebelle was a former publisher of a French newspaper called La Fleché. During World War II, he had no job until a friend Marcel Achard found him work in films for Production Artistique Cinématographique (P.A.C.) where he acted as an art director and later began producing films[1] beginning with Leçon de conduite (1946). He directed his first film Métier de fous in 1948.
His next three films were a film series of French film noir featuring Raymond Rouleau as a journalist character mixing with crime. All three had the titles beginning with the letter "M" in honour of author Pierre Benoît whose heroines all began with the letter "A".[1] The films were written by Michel Audiard, a crime novelist.
In 1960 Hunebelle teamed up with Jean Marais to make several successful swashbucklers. Following the highly successful French release of Dr No in 1963, Marais thought of adapting Jean Bruce's spy hero OSS 117 in a series of films starring himself; however, Hunebelle selected the American actor Kerwin Mathews.[2] At the same time as his OSS 117 films, Hunebelle and Marais made a trilogy of Fantômas films.

• Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1, 1.77:1
• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.35 x 0.67 x 7.6 inches; 2.12 ounces
• Director ‏ : ‎ Andre Hunebelle
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 45 minutes
• Release date ‏ : ‎ July 6, 2013
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Jean Marais, Jill Haworth, Dany Robin, Raymond Pellegrin, Pierre Mondy
• Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ English
• Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
• Language ‏ : ‎ German (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Dolby Digital 2.0)
• Studio ‏ : ‎ Zyx Records
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1