Paris: Public Executioner
Series
- Series Name
- The March of Time 1st Year
Issue
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:
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- Production Co.
- Time Inc.
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Film Archive
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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How to cite this record
'Paris: Public Executioner', The March of Time 1st Year Issue No. 8, 1936. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/352128 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)