Falk Meets Fantomas - Episode 84

Another early 20th Century character no one was clamoring to see revived: Falk Meets Fantomas! Can Falk trust anyone? Can anyone trust Falk? Listen to find out!

Falk Meets Fantomas, episode 84 of This Gun in My Hand, was created by [splorch] yes, it is I – Rob Northrup! This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How will you know when the real Falk Zildjian steps up? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Peanut butter was widely known by 1939.

2. Yes, there should be a circumflex over the letter “o” in Fantômas but English websites might lose their minds or display it as a glitch so I’m avoiding it, especially in titles and filenames.

3. Spanish pun made possible in part by the song “Más” by the Mexican band Kinky – awesome theme song to the 2003 tv show Kingpin, which walked so Breaking Bad could run. https://youtu.be/jnakM3eGYjw

Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. The music playing throughout the commercial was from another public domain film, The Scar (also known as Hollow Triumph, 1948). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/

Sound Effect Title: pigeon dove cooing singing sound effect
By: Garuda1982. https://richardatmo.bandcamp.com/
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/Garuda1982/sounds/556323/

The public domain image accompanying this episode is a painting by Gino Starace for the cover of the novel Les Souliers du mort by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain, Paris, Arthème Fayard, collection « Le Livre populaire », septembre 1912. This scan was sourced from Alfu, Patrice Caillot et François Ducos, Gino Starace : l'illustrateur de "Fantômas", Amiens, Encrage, coll. « Portraits », 1987, ISBN 2-906389-05-6, found on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gino_Starace_-_Fant%C3%B4mas_(Souvestre_%26_Allain)_-_Les_Souliers_du_mort.jpg .