The Iron Mask
1962 · Movie · 127 min. · France
Ste-Marguerite citadel, France's most isolated island prison, holds a mysterious captive, whose iron-masked face nobody may see on pain of death. Cardinal Mazarin, who rules France in the name of immature king Louis XIV, needs to marry him off to a Spanish infante to seal a peace treaty, but finds him dangerously flirtatious and diagnosed terminally ill. He sends the unstoppable musketeer Charles d'Artagnan and his three buddies to secretly bring the captive, in his mask. The prison governor's daughter is secretly in love with him and arranges an escape just when the musketeers arrive.
Direction Henri Decoin
Cast Jean Marais · Sylva Koscina · Jean-François Poron · Giselle Pascal · Philippe Lemaire · Noel Roquevert · Jean Rochefort · Claudine Auger · Germaine Montero · Enrico Maria Salerno · Jean Dhabi · Raymond Gérôme · Clément Thierry · Simone Derly · Max Montavon
Soundtrack Georges Van Parys
Screenplay Laurent Devries · Gerald Devriès · Cécil Saint-Laurent · Alejandro Dumas
Cinematography Pierre Petit
Original title Le masque de fer
5.3
50 votes (FilmAffinity)
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