Le Masque de fer

1962 French film

Le Masque de fer

Directed by	Henri Decoin
Written by	Cecil Saint-Laurent
Starring	Jean Marais Claudine Auger Jean-Francois Poron Gisèle Pascal
Cinematography	Pierre Petit
Edited by	Louisette Hautecoeur
Music by	Georges Van Parys
Distributed by	Gaumont
Release dates	France: October 26, 1962 (1962-10-26) Italy: March 8, 1963 (1963-03-08)^[1]
Running time	127 min.
Countries	France Italy
Box office	2,431,259 admissions (France)^[2]

Le Masque de fer ("The Iron Mask") is a 1962 French film directed by Henri Decoin, based 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.

Synopsis

Mazarin gives d'Artagnan the mission to rescue the imprisoned brother of Louis XIV.

In a scene not in the original book, d'Artagnan grabs Isabelle de Saint-Mars, pulls up her dress, and spanks her to punish her for not keeping a promise she had made.

Technical details

Director: Henri Decoin
Writer: Laurent Devries, Gérald Devriès, Cécil Saint-Laurent after the works of Alexandre Dumas
Producer: Roger de Broin
Director of photography: Pierre Petit
Music: Georges Van Parys
Editing: Louisette Hautecoeur
Scenery: Olivier Girard and Paul-Louis Boutié
Genre: Adventure
Length: 127 min
Date of release: France, 1962

Starring

Jean Marais: d'Artagnan
Jean-François Poron: Henri/Louis XIV
Sylva Koscina: Marion
Gisèle Pascal: Mme de Chaulmes
Jean Rochefort: Lastréaumont
Claudine Auger: Isabelle de Saint-Mars
Germaine Montero: Anne d'Autriche
Simone Derly: Marie Mancini
Noël Roquevert: Mr de Saint-Mars
Jean Lara: Renaud de Lourmes
Jean Davy: Maréchal de Turenne
Raymond Gérôme: Pimentel
Philippe Lemaire: Vaudreuil
Enrico Maria Salerno: Mazarin
Clément Thierry: Maulévrier
Max Montavon: le notaire

Notes

^ Pavlides, Dan. "Overview: Le Masque de Fer". Allmovie. Retrieved February 3, 2010.
^ "Box Office Figures for Jean Marais films". Box Office Story.

External links

Le Masque de fer at IMDb

The d'Artagnan Romances by Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers
Twenty Years After
The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later

Characters

Films

The Three
Musketeers

The Three Musketeers (1916)
Les Trois Mousquetaires (1921)
The Three Musketeers (1921)
The Three Musketeers (1932)
The Three Musketeers (1933)
The Three Musketeers (1935)
The Three Musketeers (1939)
The Three Musketeers (1942)
The Three Musketeers (1946)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
Blades of the Musketeers (1953)
The Three Musketeers (1953)
The Three Musketeers (1961)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
The Three Musketeers (1993)
The Musketeer (2001)
The Three Musketeers (2011)
3 Musketeers (2011)
The Three Musketeers (2013)
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (2023)
The Three Musketeers: Milady (2023)

Twenty Years
After

The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
Musketeers Twenty Years After (1992)

The Vicomte of
Bragelonne

The Iron Mask (1929)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
Uthama Puthiran (1940)
Lady in the Iron Mask (1952)
The Count of Bragelonne (1954)
The King's Prisoner (1954)
Uthama Puthiran (1958)
Le Masque de fer (1962)
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After (1993)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)

Other sequels

At Sword's Point (1952)
The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan (1962)
Revenge of the Musketeers (1994)
The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin (2009)

Animated

The Four Musketeers (1936) Three Blind Mouseketeers (1936) The Three Musketeers (1974) Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004) Barbie and the Three Musketeers (2009) Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds (2021)
Tom and Jerry	The Two Mouseketeers Touché, Pussy Cat! Tom and Chérie Royal Cat Nap

Television

Series

Live-action	The Three Musketeers (1966) The Mind Robber (1968) d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) Young Blades (2005) The Three Musketeers (2009–10) (puppetry) The Musketeers (2014)
Animated	The Three Musketeers (1968) Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds (1981) The Three Musketeers Anime (1987–89) The Return of Dogtanian (1989) Albert the Fifth Musketeer (1993–94)

Films

Live-action	The Three Musketeers (1959) The Three Musketeers (1969) The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) La Femme Musketeer (2004)
Animated	The Three Musketeers (1973) The Man in the Iron Mask (1985) Dogtanian: Special (1985) The Three Musketeers (1986) Dogtanian: One For All and All For One (1995)

Games

Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer
The Three Musketeers (1987 video game)
The Three Musketeers (2006 video game)
The Three Musketeers: One for All!

Musicals

The Three Musketeers (1928)
3 Musketiers

Other
adaptations

The Three Mesquiteers Dog in Boots The Three Must-Get-Theres The Three Mouseketeers (comics) The Three Musketeers (South Korean adaptation) Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (video game)
Khaavren Romances	The Phoenix Guards Five Hundred Years After The Viscount of Adrilankha The Baron of Magister Valley

v t e The films of Henri Decoin
The Oil Sharks (1933) Toboggan (1934) The Green Domino (1935) Mademoiselle ma mère (1936) Abused Confidence (1938) Return at Dawn (1938) Beating Heart (1940) Premier rendez-vous (1941) The Strangers in the House (1942) The Benefactor (1942) Love Marriage (1942) The Man from London (1943) I Am with You (1943) Devil's Daughter (1946) The Lovers of Pont Saint Jean (1947) Clockface Café (1947) Not Guilty (1947) Monelle (1948) Between Eleven and Midnight (1949) At the Grand Balcony (1949) Three Telegrams (1950) Clara de Montargis (1951) La Vérité sur Bébé Donge (1952) Love and Desire (1952) Lovers of Toledo (1953) Dortoir des grandes (1953) Les Intrigantes (1954) The Bed (1954) One Step to Eternity (1954) The Affair of the Poisons (1955) Razzia sur la chnouf (1955) Folies-Bergère (1957) Burning Fuse (1957) Charming Boys (1957) Anyone Can Kill Me (1957) The Cat (1958) Too Late to Love (1959) Nathalie, Secret Agent (1959) The Cat Shows Her Claws (1960) The Pavements of Paris (1961) Le Masque de fer (1962) Where the Truth Lies (1962) Casablanca, Nest of Spies (1963) Nick Carter va tout casser (1964) Les Parias de la gloire (1964)

The films of Henri Decoin