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An epic adventure filled with intrigue, betrayal, and a legendary iron mask shrouded in mystery. Hidden Truth Beneath the Iron Face follows the journey of knights, spies, and royal figures entangled in a dangerous conspiracy. Behind the fearsome iron mask lies a powerful secret that could change the fate of the empire. A blend of action, fantasy, and suspense that keeps the story thrilling from start to finish.
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00:01:00Out of the shadows of the past
00:01:12As from a faded tapestry of time's procession
00:01:14Slow and vast
00:01:15I step to bid you bear with me
00:01:17The while you are fancy I engage
00:01:19To look upon another age
00:01:21An age when on the human tide
00:01:24The plumed wave of chivalry rose to its summit
00:01:26Sweeping wide across a nation's mighty sea
00:01:29France never shone a brighter power
00:01:31Than in this high romantic hour
00:01:34So come with me to France of old
00:01:37To fiery days when hearts beat high
00:01:39When blood was young and hate was bold
00:01:42And sword cross sword to do or die
00:01:44For love and honor gloried then
00:01:46And friendship reached its peak with men
00:01:49Friends were friends in those brave days
00:01:52Athos, Porthos, Adamis
00:01:56I graved our hearts with a mystic phrase
00:01:59Bound our lives with a mystic tie
00:02:01Come, stir your soul with our ringing call
00:02:05Of all for one
00:02:06And one for all
00:02:09Come on
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00:02:11It is Paris on the 15th day of September
00:02:31In the year of our Lord 1638
00:02:34Public excitement runs high
00:02:37The populace enjoy a general holiday
00:02:39Impatiently they wait for the news
00:02:41Of an heir to the throne of France
00:02:43His majesty Louis XIII
00:02:59King of France
00:03:01Maintaining his royal authority
00:03:04Through the wits of others
00:03:05He is himself weak and vain
00:03:08And lives in the oily smiles
00:03:10Of a small circle of favorites
00:03:12But the court is alive with intrigue
00:03:16There are parties within parties
00:03:18Conspiracies beyond conspiracies
00:03:21Plots and counterplots
00:03:23His eminence Monseigneur the Cardinal
00:03:32Duc de Richel
00:03:33He is the greatest statesman of the day
00:03:36And manipulates the strings which guide the king
00:03:39His is the real power
00:03:41Subtle, cunning and often ruthless
00:03:45Still no one questions his devotion
00:03:48To the glorious kingdom of France
00:03:50On this auspicious morning
00:03:58The king pays a state visit to his queen
00:04:00It is the custom for the sovereign
00:04:03And his courtiers
00:04:04To attend the expectant royal mother
00:04:06Until his child is born
00:04:07D'Artagnan
00:04:18Of the king's musketeers
00:04:20Relieved of his duties at court for the day
00:04:24He hurries to the home of his sweetheart
00:04:26Constance Bonacieux
00:04:27Constance is seamstress to the queen
00:04:31And is expected at the palace
00:04:32So she cannot tarry long
00:04:34Even the most eager lover by error
00:04:51Can sometimes kiss a miss
00:04:52Or miss a kiss
00:04:54The king's carriage
00:05:12It arrives for Constance
00:05:15She carries an infant's layette
00:05:17In a crocheted basket for the queen
00:05:19One kiss, one caress
00:05:26One kiss, one caress
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00:07:36Aramis. He might be in danger.
00:07:42Aramis had threatened to continue his flirtations
00:07:44with the pretty owner of a roving, provocative eye,
00:07:47who unfortunately is married to an officer in the Cardinal's Guards.
00:07:51The Guardsman naturally resents these attentions
00:07:54from this musketeer, but is restrained.
00:07:57Has not the Cardinal forbidden these duels
00:08:00with the King's musketeers?
00:08:03Ola! Famous battle cry of the musketeers.
00:08:07Instant help comes from the most fearsome steel in the kingdom.
00:08:11Huge Porthos, brave, strong, a King's musketeer.
00:08:16And musketeer Athos, gentle Athos,
00:08:19yet a deadly swordsman is able to kill with his left hand as with the right.
00:08:27D'Artagnan!
00:08:29The battle is forming.
00:08:32The Cardinal's Guards.
00:08:34This is no private fight then, eh?
00:08:36The musketeers against the Cardinal's Guards.
00:08:38It started before D'Artagnan was born.
00:08:40And what are the odds?
00:08:41One, two, three, four, five, six, ten Guards to four,
00:08:43five to two, two and a half to one?
00:08:45Ha! Too simple.
00:08:47Draw your skewer, Monsieur Half Guardsman.
00:08:49Let's measure half a point.
00:08:53En garde!
00:08:54Come, where's your challenge now?
00:08:55Where's your steel?
00:08:56What's your fear?
00:08:57The law?
00:08:58Does the Cardinal still ban a friendly fight with a musketeer or two?
00:09:00Ah!
00:09:01Horthos, as always, is thirsty.
00:09:02He has capacity.
00:09:03D'Artagnan, with his quicker eye, has a more bountiful drinking source.
00:09:07D'Artagnan, with his quicker eye, has a more bountiful drinking source.
00:09:20D'Artagnan, with his quicker eye, has a more bountiful drinking source.
00:09:29Horthos can put out a hand and pick up the potty slavers for.
00:09:33Why waste energy walking?
00:09:35Come, driver, come inside with us.
00:09:52The old driver swears his wagon is damaged.
00:09:54His master will skin him.
00:09:55His horse is loose.
00:09:56He has a terrible wife.
00:09:57He has trouble.
00:09:58Everybody is mean to him.
00:09:59He has to be mean, too.
00:10:04Ha-ha!
00:10:05Now, take your temper out on me, good friend.
00:10:10All right.
00:10:11Now, feel better?
00:10:12Now we can talk.
00:10:13I'll win you the price of your horse and more.
00:10:15Come, guardsmen.
00:10:16I challenge you to game.
00:10:17This has not forbidden you.
00:10:28The dice are kind.
00:10:29Here's twenty times your price.
00:10:33What?
00:10:34Quiets your horse, I'd love.
00:10:35Well, let you see.
00:10:36Let's go for a price.
00:10:37Come on.
00:10:39I'll go for price.
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00:11:10His luck riding high, Artagnan returns to the dice game.
00:11:21Laughing and playing a while longer, he wins hands down from a fat-headed guardsman
00:11:26while waiting for the late evening rendezvous with Constance.
00:11:32Porthos too has women on his mind.
00:11:40And thus starts the only battle the musketeers ever lost in fair fight.
00:12:05Of course, it has to be with the fair sex.
00:12:14For the first time in his life, a panic-stricken Porthos screams a terrified,
00:12:19Hoila!
00:12:20Athos hears him.
00:12:23Aramis springs bravely to the side of his comrades, and they flee together.
00:12:27But D'Artagnan hears only the pounding of a lover's heart.
00:12:36As the flood of battle at last sweeps close to him, he leaps to meet the foe.
00:12:43And draws his swords.
00:12:45He will fight, yes?
00:12:47No, yes.
00:12:47No, he won't.
00:12:48Your indeed discretion is the better part of valor.
00:12:51Caught between the she-devils and the deep blue sea?
00:12:53Ha, ha, they choose the water.
00:12:56The next morning, the city is infirmed.
00:13:24The pressure beyond the gates is so great that the people are admitted to the courtyard.
00:13:34Adjoining the Queen's apartment, Constance prepares the layette.
00:13:42She is informed by Father Joseph, the Cardinal's trusted henchman,
00:13:46of the imminence of the royal birth.
00:13:47The end of the royal birth.
00:13:48The end of the royal birth.
00:13:49The end of the royal birth.
00:13:50The end of the royal birth.
00:13:50The end of the royal birth.
00:13:51The end of the royal birth.
00:13:52The end of the royal birth.
00:13:53The end of the royal birth.
00:13:54The end of the royal birth.
00:13:55The end of the royal birth.
00:13:56The end of the royal birth.
00:13:57The end of the royal birth.
00:13:58The end of the royal birth.
00:13:59The end of the royal birth.
00:14:00The end of the royal birth.
00:14:01The end of the royal birth.
00:14:02The end of the royal birth.
00:14:03The end of the royal birth.
00:14:04The end of the royal birth.
00:14:05The end of the royal birth.
00:14:06The end of the royal birth.
00:14:07The end of the royal birth.
00:14:08The end of the royal birth.
00:14:09The end of the royal birth.
00:14:10And so a prince is born to France, one day to become Louis XIV.
00:14:40By ancient custom, his royal father presents him to the people.
00:15:00But in the queen's bedroom, another cry is heard, one of those rare turns of destiny.
00:15:06And Constance is the first to warn the tired, dozing midwife.
00:15:36Father Joseph grasps the vast consequences of this extraordinary event.
00:15:43This news must be conveyed discreetly to Cardinal Richelieu before it gets abroad.
00:15:47He writes a message inside the wrapper of some medicine, intends it for the Cardinal's eyes alone.
00:15:55Your medicine, your eminence.
00:16:02The Duke de Rochefort, conniving head of the most powerful faction in court, working always in self-interest against the king and Cardinal, pretending loyalty to both.
00:16:14The necessity for caution on the part of Father Joseph is indeed well founded.
00:16:29De Rochefort, having many times seen messages thus taken to his eminence, becomes inquisitive.
00:16:34He resolves by a simple trick to learn the secret passed to the Cardinal.
00:16:41A substitution of scraps of paper.
00:16:47The cardinal realizes that enemies of the regime can do irreparable damage.
00:17:06Two heirs to the throne.
00:17:09Two rival parties of courtiers.
00:17:11More quarrels, more bloodshed.
00:17:14Poor France, helpless, torn between two factions.
00:17:18The secret of the twins must indeed be forever guarded.
00:17:23If France is to have peace, and if he, the Cardinal, is to retain his power.
00:17:36No pretender this.
00:17:38A true prince.
00:17:40De Rochefort sees an opportunity.
00:17:42Father Joseph is instructed to prepare for a long voyage.
00:17:57The Cardinal has a plan.
00:17:58He sends a page to summon De Rochefort.
00:18:01Theplants on the Smackinal Fire.
00:18:02Be a virtue treat
00:18:03Sometime for London man, he dies in a Application
00:18:12On the approach, the invites Justice passed away.
00:18:18Aware that Constance shares possession of a great secret, one so sacred it might well spell
00:18:24the cardinal charges her to keep her lips sealed.
00:18:43Richelieu entrusts the wily de Rochefort with Constance's safety.
00:18:47She must not be permitted to see anyone until further notice.
00:18:50The cardinal is not at liberty to tell his reasons.
00:18:53But de Rochefort is making his own plans.
00:19:03In accordance with the cardinal's command,
00:19:05Father Joseph, accompanied by the midwife,
00:19:07secretly takes the twin away to the Spanish border.
00:19:12The child shall be raised as a commoner
00:19:14with no knowledge of his royal birth.
00:19:17Meanwhile, in the great ballroom, the king holds a reception in honor of his firstborn.
00:19:31Had he known the cradle should have held two sons,
00:19:33he might have been less self-satisfied with the cardinal's congratulations.
00:19:37To the notorious Milady de Winter, de Rochefort comes to reveal this chance of fate.
00:19:47The future of France may be in their hands.
00:19:49He tells her he will turn Constance over to her.
00:19:52She is to escort Constance to the convent of Saint-Gymel.
00:19:55There, force her to tell the whole of the cardinal's secret and plans.
00:19:58He will play one against the other, cardinal against king, for his own ambition.
00:20:28Knowing Constance to be...
00:20:41One of the chair carriers runs with the news to the Musketeers' barracks.
00:20:45D'Artagnan, wake up.
00:21:09Constance taken by force.
00:21:11By de Rochefort.
00:21:13To arms! To horse! Rescue!
00:21:29All for one and one for all.
00:21:35And hang the tack.
00:21:37The wily cheat is in no mood to cross steel with this angry Gaston bet on justice.
00:21:55Rochefort's thugs are powerless to help them.
00:22:23Powerless to help them.
00:22:27Let's go.
00:22:57Let's go.
00:23:27He has to be persuaded.
00:23:46Probe goes on.
00:23:47Where is she?
00:23:47Where is Constance?
00:23:49Talk or fall 200 feet to the bottom of the well.
00:23:51Talk or die.
00:23:59The cardinal's guard look on, afraid to act.
00:24:01A strand at a time, steel cuts through him, three strands of it, and now but two.
00:24:16Now one.
00:24:17Ah, de Rochefort breaks the convent of Saint-Gilead.
00:24:28To the rescue.
00:24:34A stableman granted audience for the cardinal tells of de Rochefort's trickery and capture,
00:24:38the coroner of Constance's abduction by Milady de Winter.
00:24:52Cardinal Richelieu and his escort reach the well to confront the Duke.
00:24:54Accused, exposed, a nervous bedraggled penitent, he confesses that he has indeed played traitor.
00:25:22His eminence breaks de Rochefort, stripping him of his authority and titles, banished from both court and country forever.
00:25:31Fearing for the safety of Constance, the cardinal speeds in pursuit of Milady de Winter.
00:25:50Before dawn the next morning, the convent of Saint-Gimel.
00:25:54Milady de Winter assures the unsuspecting nuns her prisoner is an enemy of the state,
00:26:11to be confined to the convent on orders of the cardinal.
00:26:13The banished de Rochefort, smarting under his humiliations, lingers in Paris.
00:26:25All is not lost.
00:26:27He uses the last of his wealth in a desperate gamble and buys the services of ruffians.
00:26:32Pursue the cardinal and assassinate him.
00:26:46Next, find D'Artagnan and his three musketeer friends and put them to the sword.
00:26:50The Rochefort still dreams of himself in terms of the most powerful man in France.
00:27:05The path to power is open,
00:27:07if Milady de Winter secures the secret from Constance.
00:27:11With sweet words and honeyed entreaties,
00:27:28the unscrupulous Milady de Winter seeks to cajole Constance into telling all she knows.
00:27:41No, Constance Bonacieux is not here.
00:27:59But he hears her voice.
00:28:00One for all and all for one.
00:28:30The mark of the public criminal, burnt by a branding iron into her flesh, a sign to all.
00:28:44Exposed to Constance as a criminal, Milady de Winter is desperate.
00:29:01If caught thus in a second act of crime by the laws of France, Milady must face public execution.
00:29:11It is her life or that of Constance.
00:29:14To be continued...
00:29:44d'artagnan hears constance whisper that she loves him loves him above all men and then she murmurs
00:29:55three words the other one the other one d'artagnan strains to hear the faint pulse of her words
00:30:11but constance dies the musketeers take milady to winter to her punishment
00:30:19his eminence the cardinal has traveled through the night
00:30:33he hears the dreadful news from the mother superior constance is dead
00:30:49faithful loyal constance
00:31:03arrest the murderous milady to winter and all in concert with her
00:31:22the three musketeers athos porthos and aramis in rage take the law into their own hands and deliver the
00:31:33murderous to the public executioner and order her death
00:31:37then de rochefort's cutthroats close in on the cardinal's true
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00:32:29Some distance away, the musketeers are captured by their deadliest rivals.
00:32:51The cardinal's guard formally arrests the musketeers for continuing to take the law into their own hands.
00:32:59Disarmed, the musketeers are set against the wall for execution.
00:33:09Your guards will take the lives of my friends. Single-handed, they shall have revenge.
00:33:15The cardinal asks a moment to ponder. Constance dead. A murderess executed.
00:33:23Enough blood has been shed. Now this strife tricks musketeer and guard shall end.
00:33:29D'Artagnan's plea saves his friends, but there's to be a harsh penalty. Richelieu's plan concerns the state and these continuing disputes between his guard and the king's musketeers.
00:33:51The four musketeers must separate, never to come together again on pain of death.
00:33:58His judgment, oh, a sorry day. The musketeers are banished, each to his own province, never to visit Paris again, nor set foot beyond the bounds of his own fields.
00:34:10As for you, D'Artagnan, a splendid soldier, reliable, devoted to. You henceforth shall be bodyguard of the future king, beloved of France, the nation's one.
00:34:31That one fell swoop, all strife is done.
00:34:38The musketeers prepare for their banishment. Godspeed. Farewell.
00:34:44Eternal friendship, it shall not fall. All for one, and one for all.
00:34:59Five years have passed. France is at peace.
00:35:06The infant prince grows to boyhood. Cardinal Richelieu, driven hard by the responsibilities of high office, lives in semi-retirement.
00:35:19And a royal father educates his son in courtly etiquette.
00:35:25In failing health is at peace.
00:35:28Five years have passed. France is at peace.
00:35:32The infant prince grows to boyhood. Cardinal Richelieu, driven hard by the responsibilities of high office, lives in semi-retirement.
00:35:34And a royal father educates his son in courtly etiquette.
00:35:37In failing health, his eminence lives an hourly expectation of death.
00:35:52Troubled by word that the second twin bears an identical likeness to the heir.
00:35:56The dangers inherent are obvious and weigh heavily on the cardinal's mind.
00:36:16He decides he must protect the prince somehow.
00:36:19His eminence provides that the rightful twin may always be identified.
00:36:24From the other. With the aid of the court jeweler, he caused a gold doubloon to be broken.
00:36:31The smaller piece hangs on a chain around the throat of the infant prince.
00:36:35And its mate he places about the neck of Captain D'Artagnan.
00:36:47And so, by joining the pieces, the true heir to the throne of France and the prince's first guardian
00:36:52are known to one another for all time.
00:36:56He starts to say, I hold a secret.
00:37:00But the chill hand is upon him.
00:37:03The life spring ebbs and the great voice is silenced.
00:37:08A great statesman passes into history.
00:37:27The church loses a noble servant.
00:37:30And the ship of state is without its pilot.
00:37:32What was this secret that Richelieu and Constance shared?
00:37:40The other one.
00:37:45Across the Spanish border, the prince's twin brother is reared by servants of the late cardinal.
00:37:50The banished to Rochefort, living nearby, holds the twin under his very eye.
00:37:56He bides his time.
00:37:58He has only to wait patiently for the proper day.
00:38:00Upon the death of Louis XIII, the heir to the throne of the Dauphin, as he was called,
00:38:14became France's King Louis XIV.
00:38:17Both he and his twin had grown to manhood.
00:38:20The brothers are alike as two peas in a pod.
00:38:22Twenty years have passed and more since Richelieu bent his iron will to break the bonds that held us four.
00:38:38But Porthos, Athos, Aramis, I will ride once more.
00:38:43Once more we'll heed the clarion call of all for one and one for all.
00:38:48During the years, de Rochefort's connivings have brought the exiled twin under his control.
00:39:01Secretly, they have returned to Paris.
00:39:03De Rochefort has lavished upon the usurper the trappings of royalty,
00:39:07teaching him to copy even the handwriting of his brother, the king.
00:39:10Yet the quality of the spirit so generous in the king is replaced in the brother by hatred and viciousness.
00:39:16The king's vela to de Rochefort's spy brings long-awaited news.
00:39:29Within the week, an older d'Artagnan, after a lifetime of loyal service, will retire and leave the court.
00:39:35The young king will be without a bodyguard.
00:39:37Every detail of their plan has gone over.
00:39:41The map.
00:39:43The sentries to overpower.
00:39:45The secret approach to the royal apartment.
00:39:47The signals.
00:39:48This very week, de Rochefort tells the pretender, you will be his majesty, Louis XIV, king of France.
00:40:01Louis XIV, king of France.
00:40:02Louis XIV, king of France, spends d'Artagnan's last day in fun and gaiety.
00:40:07The king has applied himself to an education in horsemanship, sportsmanship and swordsmanship.
00:40:11No two men were ever closer except they were father and son.
00:40:21No two men were ever closer except they were father and son.
00:40:31No two men were ever closer except they were father and son.
00:41:01The king is safe.
00:41:02Because of the fire early, d'Artagnan enters the royal bedchamber to bid the king goodbye.
00:41:11Tonight he feels happy.
00:41:12His service is done.
00:41:13His king is secure.
00:41:14The state is safe.
00:41:15But by some odd premonition, the coins are matched on this final night of parting.
00:41:31In a glow of happy memories of a delightful evening with the king, Captain d'Artagnan arrives outside his lodging
00:41:58and is amazed to find himself beset by ruffings.
00:42:01Angrily, the Gascon plans his battle.
00:42:03First, he deals with the dagger man decoy, sticks him with his own blade,
00:42:07throws the man's cape to the edge of an open sewer,
00:42:10places his own cape over the decoy's body and fires his own pistol.
00:42:15Hi-o!
00:42:16On to the balcony.
00:42:28There, they believe, goes d'Artagnan.
00:42:31A thoughtful d'Artagnan returns to his lodging.
00:42:45For a peaceful man to be waylaid on a city street is something new.
00:42:49He had spent the evening with his king.
00:42:53He reflects, has the palace discipline been slackling too?
00:42:59Sentries were not where they should have been.
00:43:02His soldierly heart is disturbed for the safety of his king.
00:43:06The Rochefort's plan is working without a hitch.
00:43:24Sentries at the outer gate have been overpowered.
00:43:27Entry is forced into the inner quadrangle.
00:43:29The palace is entered through a servant's postern leading to long forgotten cellars.
00:43:34Success.
00:43:37No sound.
00:43:38No word.
00:43:39No warning.
00:44:04The pretender waits impatiently below for the deed which will make him king.
00:44:09In the Anteroom to the King's bedchamber, Mara and Surrey's maggot awaits his master's signal.
00:44:11Ready for the finalettreasury.
00:44:13In the ante-room to the King's bedchamber de Rochefort's maggot awaits his master's signal, ready for the final treachery.
00:44:43And a little after eleven o'clock on this fateful night, in one tragic moment, France loses her rightful King.
00:45:13Bewildered, uncertain if he dreams or not, King Louis XIV, surrounded by strangers, looks unbelievingly at a venomously mirrored likeness of himself.
00:45:33The usurper watches his royal brother with a lifetime of hate.
00:45:40The Rochefort's plans have been cleverly checked and double-checked.
00:45:45He means to hold the true King a prisoner as a threat over the head of the usurper should he rebel against his commands.
00:45:52At the Rochefort's order, his cohorts strip the King of his night attire and, in exchange, dress him in the usurper's clothes.
00:46:01Into the palace cellars, a messenger reports breathlessly. D'Artagnan is dead. His body thrown in the river. Complete triumph at last.
00:46:24Triumph at last.
00:46:36An iron mask. An invention of the devil. An iron mask. A prison within a prison is placed over the head of the rightful King Louis XIV and locked at the neck.
00:46:46His countenance concealed from all men.
00:47:01The true King is led away.
00:47:11In the quiet of the royal apartments, the true King's bed is occupied by the usurper.
00:47:16Trusted servitors have been spirited away. The twins' lackeys have replaced them.
00:47:21De Rochefort's plan is complete.
00:47:28Poor France.
00:47:32Ruled by a youth driven near to lunacy, by a solitary childhood, by de Rochefort's lies, by his own poisoned dreams.
00:47:40Truly a madman.
00:47:42Suffering in human life is proportioned to human strength.
00:47:52When the young King, stupefied and crushed, found himself led a prisoner to a cell in the Chateau Sainte-Marguerite in the south of France,
00:48:00he fancied at first that death is like sleep and has its dreams.
00:48:05He believed himself to be a spectator, a palpable phantom of his own suffering.
00:48:11A torture the more terrible since it might be eternal.
00:48:15Eternal death.
00:48:18How can I have died?
00:48:20I am a king, yet not a king, enthroned upon a funereal couch.
00:48:25No.
00:48:27No, dear God, do not punish me who have done nothing.
00:48:31Why am I thus punished?
00:48:34Like a cloak, the chill of the dungeon falls upon his shoulders.
00:48:40So dwells the real Louis XIV in a living hell to remain thus the rest of his days.
00:48:55The Queen Mother, always restricted, prevented from seeing her son, determines finally to pay him a visit.
00:49:08In place of the affectionate and courtly Louis XIV, to her horror she finds herself repulsed.
00:49:17Doubts.
00:49:18Again doubts.
00:49:20What strange malady besets my son.
00:49:25She thinks again of the other one.
00:49:30The Rochefort hurries to the king's apartment, fearful that a mother's heart has sensed the truth.
00:49:35In pretence of humility, he asks the Queen Mother to leave.
00:49:39Affairs of state.
00:49:50To Rochefort is determined.
00:50:00This shall not happen again.
00:50:03And whispers death.
00:50:05Day by day, night upon night, the prisoner prays for some way to get word to d'Artagnan.
00:50:18A heaven-sent fisherman hoves to.
00:50:33He finishes scratching a message into pewter.
00:50:35And as all good prayers must be, his prayer is answered.
00:50:39Militant mackerel are running.
00:50:40And then a catch, apparently from heaven.
00:50:42The fisherman reads the name of d'Artagnan.
00:50:44The idol of the nation.
00:50:45A written word.
00:50:46A beloved name.
00:50:47An urgent message.
00:50:48He, a patriot, needs no urging.
00:50:49He, a patriot, needs no urging.
00:50:53More than before.
00:50:55More than before.
00:50:56More than before.
00:50:57He, Xinら.
00:50:58Why?
00:50:59Sure, now wait a second time?
00:51:00More!
00:51:01Even, let's fast.
00:51:02There is no mere lovers liam.
00:51:03Old to coffin.
00:51:06Thank you, and therefore!
00:51:07Question.
00:51:08We tell.
00:51:09I had managed to ask.
00:51:11Cloning is one, let's apologize.
00:51:12Well then, what have I made myself?
00:51:15How will it be?
00:51:18Oh, before you hear a traitor,
00:51:19I'm empty.
00:51:20Paris goes about its daily affairs unaware that its rightful king languishes in prison
00:51:29and the Queen Mother herself faces death as the humble fisherman hastens to D'Artagnan's home.
00:51:36D'Artagnan stays on in Paris and to his hurt amazement continually finds himself barred from the court.
00:51:43Day by day, week by week, audience with the king has been refused.
00:51:47The fisherman blurts his weird news.
00:51:50A story hard to believe, a lonely castle which D'Artagnan knows like the palm of his hand.
00:51:55A prisoner in an iron mask behind its bars.
00:51:59But the signature, an etching of a coin that fits his own exactly.
00:52:04Come, friend, eat and drink. There is business at last for me at the palace.
00:52:20There is business at last for me at the palace.
00:52:22Threading his way through the perfumed route of the court's chattering idlers, D'Artagnan finds himself a stranger in the palace.
00:52:28D'Artagnan finds himself a stranger in a strange atmosphere, and there is reason, he thinks, for this curious tension.
00:52:33To Rochefort and the king, D'Artagnan finds himself a stranger in a strange atmosphere, D'Artagnan finds himself a stranger in a strange atmosphere, and there is reason, he thinks, for this curious tension.
00:52:55To Rochefort and the king. This cannot be the boy I help nurture into manhood. This is not the face of my king. Those are not his hands. At risk, neither parried steel nor engaged a point.
00:53:08What's been happening at court? De Rochefort's back in favor? A disgraced exile once more sporting about the throne room in the king's presence? D'Artagnan is amazed and shocked.
00:53:21But a further shock is in store. A chain and coin is passed to de Rochefort. If he can believe his eyes in all the years he's served the king, they never left his royal person.
00:53:35He overhears a snatch of conversation. The other one. And suddenly he hears the dying voice of Constance. The other one. The other one.
00:53:55What did she mean? A message signed by the royal coin. A king not a king.
00:54:04And a court alive with known traitors. D'Artagnan smells a rat. But a rat has seen him and gives warning.
00:54:11The palace guards are alerted. And all exits barred.
00:54:16Little do they reckon with a resourceful old musketeer.
00:54:17Little do they reckon with a resourceful old musketeer.
00:54:23D'Artagnan orders a king's loyal troop to be hurried to meet him at the Chateau St.
00:54:28Marguerite.
00:54:29D'Artagnan orders a king's loyal troop to be hurried to meet him at the Chateau St.
00:54:33Marguerite.
00:54:34Curriers are to be dispatched to his old friends, the three musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis.
00:54:40To arms, musketeers, your king has need of you. One for all and all for one.
00:54:47The jig is up. D'Artagnan lives and knows the king's
00:54:54the king's loyal troops. D'Artagnan orders a king's loyal troop to be hurried to meet him at the Chateau St.
00:54:57Marguerite.
00:54:58Curriers are to be dispatched to his old friends, the three musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis.
00:55:02To arms, musketeers, your king has need of you. One for all and all for one.
00:55:14The jig is up. D'Artagnan lives and knows this pewter plate. Perhaps even now he has reached the prison gate.
00:55:29The Rochefort cannot believe his future lies in a common plate.
00:55:39Quickly he resolves to end all doubts. He decides to ride at the head of his troops to prevent any attempt to free the king.
00:55:47The puzzle d'Artagnan has reached the Chateau St. Marguerite, certain that his comrades will join him.
00:56:06Under cover of the raging storm, he rose to the grotto beneath the castle. Many a time as a young officer, he had patrolled his grotto passage.
00:56:13It led, he knew, to the arsenal. Beyond that, the armory. Then the main hall and staircase to the tower itself.
00:56:20Up there is the man in the iron mask, the writer of the message.
00:56:25To his astonishment, D'Artagnan finds the entrance to the arsenal as newly walled.
00:56:40The old war horse is prepared to hazard it alone, if necessary.
00:56:48The old war horse is prepared to hazard it alone, if necessary.
00:56:53The fisherman returns to the opposite bank to await the arrival of help.
00:57:03The fisherman returns to the opposite bank to await the arrival of help.
00:57:08Athos. A few years older, a little more grizzled, the same brave companion.
00:57:11A few years older, a little more grizzled, the same brave companion.
00:57:12The fisherman returns to the opposite bank to await the arrival of help.
00:57:17The fisherman returns to the opposite bank to await the arrival of help.
00:57:21Athos. A few years older, a little more grizzled, the same brave companion as of old.
00:57:39Ready and willing for any gambit.
00:57:42Ready and want to have a panty Agora.
00:57:45Ready and want to have aMan.
00:57:50And now, Aramis.
00:57:59And I'm relying on popular boys.
00:58:05To get back to David see Please.
00:58:10THE END
00:58:40Now two of the valiant comrades have arrived
00:58:43No time to wait for old Porthos
00:58:45No time for explanations
00:58:46There's a job to be done
00:58:48Forward
00:58:49Through the racks of gunpowder barrels
00:58:56To the main hall
00:58:57And the tower staircase itself
00:59:10Where's the prisoner
00:59:25Before your gullet tastes this edge
00:59:27You bloated villain
00:59:28weder
00:59:30Wh�
00:59:34Who
00:59:36Who
00:59:38Who
00:59:40Who
00:59:40Who
00:59:44Who
00:59:45Who
00:59:47Who
00:59:48At last, D'Artagnan knows the voice.
01:00:07It is his true and rightful king, Louis XIV, King of France.
01:00:12The castle guards.
01:00:19The challenge is met.
01:00:25The musketeers fight together again.
01:00:42The summit is a young man.
01:00:53He's gone.
01:00:55He's the one.
01:00:57Over the world.
01:01:00The castle is mine.
01:01:04Let's go.
01:01:34Let's go.
01:02:04It's for a little drop of blood.
01:02:34Let's go.
01:03:04All for one and what a roll.
01:03:21Be certain, cherished friends that I shall wait for you.
01:03:27What good times we had together, eh?
01:03:30Good Porthos, farewell.
01:03:46You died as you lived, for love of country, in the service of your king.
01:03:56The fisherman gives warning of the approach of enemies.
01:03:59The musketeers surround the king and gallop off to Paris.
01:04:23The rochefort rides hard in the last effort to keep his house from crumbling.
01:04:29The odds are ten to one.
01:04:38The odds are ten to one.
01:04:40Take care, your majesty.
01:04:56On to Paris.
01:05:04Farewell, gallant Aramis.
01:05:05A traitor's bullet struck you down.
01:05:08Meanwhile, Aramis crosses swords with de Rochefort.
01:05:17But at the highest price of all, Aramis joins his comrades.
01:05:21And without knowing his own peril, the half-wit, half-king entertains his royal mother at a palace luncheon.
01:05:35Cunningly, he says, a private matter.
01:05:48More troops from the palace.
01:06:10Friends or foe?
01:06:11Friends!
01:06:13D'Artagnan breathes relief.
01:06:14The king is safe.
01:06:16God save the king.
01:06:18The queen mother suspects this attempt on her life.
01:06:46The witch's brew, a subtle poison already responsible for many an agonizing death.
01:06:57Raise your glass, madam.
01:06:59Drink to your king, to your country and its illustrious people.
01:07:04Come, I give you France.
01:07:07Dare she refuse?
01:07:09It is the edict of her son, the king.
01:07:16The toast, but a warning cry.
01:07:21Let's go.
01:07:26The usurper finally gets his rightful crown.
01:07:36The usurper finally gets his rightful crown to Rochefort's own damnable invention, the
01:07:54Iron Mask, his to the end of his days. As D'Artagnan pours away the poisoned wine, the usurper takes swift, bitter revenge.
01:08:24D'Artagnan knows himself mortally wounded but allows no sign to mar the happiness of his king.
01:08:49Blood, the weapon of the murderer with crimson evidence on the blade.
01:09:12Grateful Louis looks for Captain D'Artagnan to honor him with the bateau of a Marshal of France.
01:09:27But where is the musketeer?
01:09:34The court resounds with the king's commands and his cry to find his friend and mentor.
01:09:49What a man may think when he knows of the approach of death is secret between himself and his maker.
01:09:58Perhaps the gallant musketeer thinks most of his lost love, Constance, and of all the tender, lonely years kept warm by her memory.
01:10:07He dies in hope of faith that she might welcome him, that once again they might be one.
01:10:14How can they die, these bright ones? How may such energy, once released, be prisoned by earth or stone or grave?
01:10:23We die as we lived, say they, with life. And with life, how can there be death?
01:10:33Only remember us. Only open a little book and we shall always be with you.
01:10:38To ride a fine horse or to cross a sharp blade or carouse with a barrel or dally with a maid.
01:10:43Come one, come all.
01:10:57And so passed a brave and glorious man in honor.
01:11:03Only think and we live again. We live forever.
01:11:07For with us, now as ever, it's one for all and all for one.
01:11:14And thus it was in France of old and fiery days, when hearts beat high.
01:11:18When blood was young and hate was bold and sword crossed sword to do or die.
01:11:23For love and honor gloried then, when life was life and men were men.
01:11:37While not� and
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