Like Franju's Nuits Rouges and his L'Homme Sans Visage, Diabolik strikes me as a descendant of Feuillade's Fantomas, and just as thrillingly cheap. With a terrific score by Ennio Morricone, and produced by Dino De Laurentiis, it's Bava's only film for an American Studio; and it's made with high style. John Phillip Law is the strikingly beautiful Diabolik, the male counterpart to Barbarella and Modesty Blaise. A master thief constantly outwitting the authorities on the grandest scale imaginable, he is also a lover capable of great feats of sexual extravagance, and one who truly loves to steal.
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