“The Man in the Iron Mask”
Louis Haward gets a dual role in Edward Small’s new picture, “The Man in the Iron Mask,” a screen version of the Dumas story that has been Aimed before. Hayward plays the unfortunate young man of the title, a natural twin brother of King Louis XIV, and also Louis himself. ’ After being arrested with the three musketeers—the three—to whom he has been entrusted as a foster son, Philippe is taken to Paris, where he is seen by the King and employed as a • double. The subsequent discrepancies in the behaviour of the King, whose normal j brutality on occasions seems curiously transformed, puzzles the people, statesmen and, most of all,, the Spanish Maria Theresa, who is betrothed to Louis. Hut, inevitably, the honest and charming Philippe incurs the enmity of the King, who shuts him up in the Pastille and condemns him to wear the iron mask. The story concerns the efforts of the musketeers to release their protege, and recounts the help they receive from Maria Theresa, who is played by Joan Hcnnett. The cast includes Warren William as D’Artagnan, Alan Hale as Porthos and Joseph Schiidkraut as a servant of the king.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20892, 25 August 1939, Page 4
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