- The Iron Mask
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name = The Iron Mask
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director =Allan Dwan
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writer = Jack Cunningham
Alexandre Dumas (novel)Douglas Fairbanks
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starring =Belle Bennett ,Douglas Fairbanks ,Marguerite De La Motte Dorothy Revier Vera Lewis Rolfe Sedan William Bakewell
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released = 1929
runtime = 95 min
country = USA
language =silent film
English intertitles
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imdb_id = 0020030"The Iron Mask" is a 1929
silent film adaptation of the last section of the novel "The Vicomte de Bragelonne " byAlexandre Dumas, père , which is itself based on the French legend ofThe Man in the Iron Mask .Overview
The 1929 silent version, titled "The Iron Mask", was the last
silent film produced by, and starring,Douglas Fairbanks . It starred Fairbanks as D'Artagnan,Marguerite De La Motte as his beloved Constance (who is killed early in the film to protect the secret that the King has a twin brother),Nigel De Brulier as the schemingCardinal Richelieu , andUlrich Haupt as the evil Count De Rochefort.William Bakewell appeared as the royal twins.The original 1929 release, though a silent film, actually had a soundtrack: two short speeches delivered by Fairbanks, and a musical score with a few sound effects. In 1952 it was reissued, with the printed intertitles removed and a narration voiced by
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. added.In 1999, with the cooperation of the
Library of Congress and theMuseum of Modern Art ,Kino Video released a DVD of the 1929 version. No film copy with the soundtrack of the Fairbanks speeches existed, but phonograph records of them did exist, so using digital techniques the sound from these was synchronized with film footage. For this reissue, a new score was commissioned from composerCarl Davis . The Kino disk also includes excerpts from the 1952 version, some outtakes from the original filming, and some textual background material from the program for the 1999 premiere showing of the reconstruction.External links
*imdb title|id=0020030|title=The Iron Mask - 1929
*" [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/iron_mask/ The Iron Mask] " atRotten Tomatoes
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