The Iron Mask

(1929)

95 minutes

Action / Adventure / Classic / Drama / Part Talkie and Silent / Suspense

Directed by Allan Dwan

Cast:

Douglas Fairbanks as D'Artagnan
Belle Bennett as The Queen Mother
Marguerite De La Motte as Constance Bonacieux
Dorothy Revier as Milady de Winter
Vera Lewis as Madame Peronne
Rolfe Sedan as King Louis XIII
William Bakewell as King Louis XIV and Twin Brother
Gordon Thorpe as Young Prince and Twin Brother
Nigel De Brulier as Cardinal Richelieu
Ullrich Haupt as Count De Rochefort
Lon Poff as Father Joseph, the Queen's Confessor
Charles Stevens as Planchet, D'Artagnan's Servant
Henry Otto as the King's Valet
Leon Bary as Athos
Tiny Sandford as Porthos

King Louis XIII of France is consumed with happiness when his son is born, but when the queen delivers a twin, he has him sent to Spain in order for France to have a peaceful future. Many years pass by and the twins are switched in order for the hidden one to be king, while the other is concealed with an iron mask and sent to prison in order to remain a mystery.