Paris: Public Executioner

Series

Series Name

The March of Time 1st Year

Issue

Issue No.

8

Date Released

1936

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1USA: Army Manoeuvres
2. 2Paris: Public Executioner
3. 3Geneva: League of Nations

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

Fielding synopsis: "...a screen biography of Pierre Deibler, France’s chief executioner - ‘The Outcast of Paris’. In a lively piece of cinematic Grand Guignol, the March of Time cameras followed this untouchable through the streets of Paris at dawn, watched him set up his guillotine, described the grisly occupation that he had inherited from his father, and returned with him to his tomb-like house in the Paris suburbs to speculate on rumors that this lonely man planned retirement, fearing that he, like his father, might go mad."

Researcher Comments

Titled ‘The Outcast of Paris’ as Issue 1 of Volume 2 in the USA.

Keywords

Death; Law

Written sources

Fielding, Raymond. The March of Time 1935-1951 (New York, 1978)   p138.

Credits:

Production Co.

Time Inc.

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Film Archive

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