The Iron Mask
(1929) A funny swashbuckling Alexandre Dumas adventure film featuring Douglas
Fairbanks.
Reviewer: flashfast -
- June 22, 2005 Subject: Swashbuckling all the way This is an interesting and fun movie, and the story more believable than
many of today's rehashed versions of the Alexander Dumas classic (there's even a
shot of all four musketeers in bed together like sardines - which caused a
chuckle considering that the scene in today's Hollywood would have been excised
very quickly).
Basically it seems to be a silent movie, but dubbed with the voice of Douglas
Fairbanks. I'd say the movie was released about the same time as sound recording
emerged, and the movie re-edited to contain Fairbank's ongoing monologue - a
voice that is still unique today.
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