The Face Behind the Mask

Duration: 11 min

Release date: 1938-03-19

IMDB

This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King Louis XIV imprisoned a man who was never identified, but who was forced to wear an iron mask for the length of his captivity, which ended only in his death. Several candidates for the identity of the man are investigated.

Documentary Mystery History

The Face Behind the Mask

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as Narrator (voice)

Carlos De Valdez

Carlos De Valdez

as Bit Part (uncredited)

as Bit Part (uncredited)

as Bit Part (uncredited)

as La Vallière, The King's Sweetheart (uncredited)

George W. Jimenez

George W. Jimenez

as Spanish King (uncredited)

as Nicholas Fouquet (uncredited)

as Peasant (uncredited)

Andre Marsaudon

Andre Marsaudon

as Bit Part (uncredited)

Thomas R. Mills

Thomas R. Mills

as Governor (uncredited)

as Louis XIV, The Man in the Iron Mask (uncredited)

as Count Mattioli (uncredited)

as Bit Part (uncredited)

as The Mask (uncredited)

as Louis XIII (uncredited)

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Jacques Tourneur

Jacques Tourneur

Milton Gunzburg

Milton Gunzburg

Director of Photography

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