The Iron Mask
by Allan Dwan
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Actor: Belle Bennett, Dorothy Revier, Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Vera LewisDirector: Allan Dwan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-06-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kino Video
Movie Reviews of The Iron Mask
Movie Review: Wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
The only thing that would make this DVD package better, for me, would be to also have the option of the entire 1952 reissue of the film. I am greatful for the excerpt , but would love to see the whole version with Jr's narration.
But I am so Happy with the Kineo print and that they really Thought about the musical score added. So often I am coming across Fairbanks films that are just impossible for me to get into fully because of the music that has been thrown onto them not relating to what was happening on screen at all. case in point... The Three Musketeers with old 20s Jazz recordings ... that's just lazy to me. I Love 20s Jazz, and it might work with a "contemporary " 20s comedy ... but the musketeers soundtrack reminded me of Laurel and Hardy more than a Musketeer-period adventure film .... anyway, It's an important issue to me regarding silent films.
Also I've been waiting for years to see and hear the sound introductions by Fairbanks senior , since I first read about them back in the 70s, so that addition was a very special treat.
Summary of The Iron Mask
While all Hollywood was gearing up for sound, Douglas Fairbanks lavished money and attention on this ambitious period adventure, a jaunty, jubilant sequel to his early swashbuckler The Three Musketeers. The Iron Mask is set 20 years later, and Fairbanks (by now 43 years old) reprises his role as D'Artagnan as the older and more mature personal protector of young Louis XIV. When he tips a plot by the powerful cardinals to replace the heir to the throne with his twin brother, D'Artagnan reunites his aging compatriots of old for one last hurrah. Energetically directed by Allan Dwan, who guided Fairbanks through his biggest hit, Robin Hood, and handsomely designed by William Cameron Menzies (The Thief of Bagdad), this action-packed film moves through plot twists and conspiratorial machinations with quicksilver speed (it begins and ends with breathless chase scenes), but it also carries a dimension of melancholy: the musketeers are aging and the era of chivalry fading. The touching denouement, a scene both ebullient and affecting, becomes Fairbanks's farewell to the silent screen. In a way the film is a farewell to the grace and energy of the silent cinema that almost disappeared in the early sound years. Fairbanks only appeared in five talkies before retiring in 1935. Kino's edition features the 1952 reissue with narration by son Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and an orchestral score by Allan Gray. --Sean AxmakerAction & Adventure DVD Video
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