Le Masque de fer (1962)

Directed by

Henri Decoin

Genre

adventure film, swashbuckler film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

12

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 17th century France, a mysterious prisoner is held in the Bastille wearing an iron mask. A musketeer and his son try to uncover the secret behind the prisoner's identity and replace him with the corrupt King Louis XIV.

adventurousswashbucklingromanticheroicfast-paceddramaticclassic

What happens

Le Masque de fer ("The Iron Mask") is a 1962 French film directed by Henri Decoin, based very loosely on the 1850 novel The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas and specifically part 3 of the novel, The Man in the Iron Mask; which in turn is based on the real-life story of the Man in the Iron Mask. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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