🎥 The Man In The Iron Mask - 1955 - 🎥 FULL MOVIE

The Story ...

In 1638, King Louis XIII of France is delighted when his wife bears him a son, Louis, the heir to the throne.

However, a few minutes later, a second son is born! ...

Colbert, the king's trusted adviser, persuades the king to secretly send the second child, Philippe, away to Gascony to be raised by his majesty's dear friend, D'Artagnan, in order to avert a possible civil war later.

Fouquet, a mere cardinal's messenger at the time, finds out about the twin and uses this to advance his career.

Twenty years later, he is the Minister of Finance under Louis XIV ...

The king is hated by the commoners for levying oppressive taxes and for executing them for not paying them.

Fouquet sends soldiers to force D'Artagnan and his people to pay the taxes, though the old king had exempted him and his village from them. They are driven off, but return in much greater numbers and, with great difficulty, capture D'Artagnan, the three musketeers and Philippe.

Louis is about to order their executions when Colbert tells him about Philippe's uncanny resemblance to him.

As Louis is aware of an assassination attempt to take place that day (but not where or when), he makes Philippe impersonate him in exchange for his friends' lives. Philippe not only survives the ambush, he shows mercy to his would-be killers and is cheered by the people.

Princess Maria Theresa (Joan Bennett), whom Louis is to wed to seal an alliance with Spain, finds this new Louis much more attractive than the real one. However, when she discovers that Louis is having an affair with Mademoiselle de la Valliere (Marion Martin), she returns to Spain.

When the truth is discovered, Louis has Philippe imprisoned with an iron mask placed on his head, hoping that Philippe's beard will grow inside the mask and eventually suffocate him.

Philippe is rescued by the musketeers, who break into the sleeping Louis's chamber and imprison him in the mask. The musketeers drag him away and lock him in the Bastille, where the jailers mistake him for Phillippe, and whip him.

When Louis manages to get a message to Fouquet, he is freed, and a chase by coach ensues to stop Philippe from marrying Maria Theresa and taking Louis' place on the throne.

The coach is waylaid by the musketeers, who all die heroically, but Fouquet and the real Louis XIV are also killed when the driverless coach plunges off a cliff.

The mortally wounded d'Artagnan survives long enough to exclaim "God Save the King!" at Philippe's wedding, and then falls dead.

Philippe finally assumes the throne! ...

Credits :

Directed by : James Whale
Screenplay by : George Bruce
Based on : The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (1848–50) by Alexandre Dumas
Produced by : Edward Small
Cinematography : Robert H. Planck
Edited by : Grant Whytock
Music by : Lud Gluskin and Lucien Moraweck
Production Company : Edward Small Productions
Distributed by : United Artists
Release Date : July 13, 1939

Cast :

Louis Hayward : King Louis XIV / Philippe of Gascony
Joan Bennett : Princess Maria Theresa
Warren William : d'Artagnan
Joseph Schildkraut : Fouquet
Alan Hale : Porthos
Miles Mander : Aramis
Bert Roach: Athos
Walter Kingsford : Colbert
Marion Martin : Mademoiselle de la Valliere (credited as Marian Martin)
Montagu Love : The Spanish ambassador
Doris Kenyon : Queen Anne
Albert Dekker : King Louis XIII
Nigel De Brulier : Cardinal Richelieu
Boyd Irwin : Lord High Constable of France
Howard Brooks : Cardinal Mazarin
Reginald Barlow : Jean Paul
Lane Chandler : Captain of Fouquet's Guards
Wyndham Standing: Doctor
Dorothy Vaughan : Midwife
Sheila Darcy : Maria, Theresa's Maid
Robert Milasch : Torturer
D'Arcy Corrigan : Tortured Prisoner
Harry Woods : First Officer
Peter Cushing : Second Officer
Ted Billings : Prisoner (uncredited)
Dwight Frye : Fouquet's Valet

Film Information :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Iron_Mask_(1939_film)

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