The Iron Mask (1929)

Directed by

Allan Dwan

Genre

drama film, swashbuckler film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent swashbuckler follows the aging d'Artagnan as he tries to rescue a king imprisoned by his treacherous twin brother. It is based on the Dumas novel about the infamous man in the iron mask.

adventurousromanticnostalgictragicswashbucklingdramatichistoricalsweeping

What happens

The Iron Mask is a 1929 American part-talkie adventure film directed by Allan Dwan. In addition to some sequences with dialogue, the film featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects and a theme song. The film is an adaptation of the last section of the 1847-1850 novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père, which is itself based on the French legend of the Man in the Iron Mask. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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