The Iron Mask (1952) – Louis Hayward in a Swashbuckling Dumas Adventure

The Iron Mask (1952) is an American swashbuckler adventure film directed by Ralph Murphy, starring Louis Hayward in a dual role as both D’Artagnan and the Man in the Iron Mask. Produced by Edward Small, the film is a remake of his own 1939 production The Man in the Iron Mask, which also starred Hayward.
Loosely based on the final section of Alexandre Dumas’ The Vicomte de Bragelonne, the story follows the Musketeers as they uncover a conspiracy involving a hidden twin of King Louis XIV. Political intrigue, swordplay, and royal deception drive the narrative as D’Artagnan attempts to protect France from a coup.
The film was shot in SuperCinecolor, giving it a distinctive, vibrant look typical of early‑1950s adventure cinema.

Film Details
Year: 1952
Genre: Adventure / Swashbuckler
Director: Ralph Murphy
Screenplay: Allan Dwan, based on The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
Produced by: Edward Small
Starring: Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, John Sutton, Alan Hale Jr.
Cinematography: Ernest Laszlo
Edited by: Grant Whytock
Music: Paul Sawtell
Studio: Edward Small Productions
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: May 1952
Runtime: 78 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Color Process: SuperCinecolor

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00:04:03and his courtiers to attend the expectant royal mother

00:04:06until his child is born.

00:04:17D'Artagnan, of the king's musketeers.

00:04:22Relieved of his duties at court for the day,

00:04:24he hurries to the home of his sweetheart,

00:04:26Constance Bonacieux.

00:04:29Constance is seamstress to the queen

00:04:31and is expected at the palace, so she cannot tarry long.

00:04:48Even the most eager lover by error

00:04:50can sometimes kiss a miss or miss a kiss.

00:05:10The king's carriage.

00:05:13It arrives for Constance.

00:05:15She carries an infant's layette

00:05:17in a crocheted basket for the queen.

00:05:23One kiss, one caress.

00:05:27One kiss, one caress.

00:05:48One kiss, one caress.

00:05:56One kiss, one poorer.

00:06:23A kiss truly is a delicate plant requiring

00:06:27privacy to grow into a tender blossom, the dream of all lovers.

00:06:58Peer and freaks!

00:07:05Peer and freaks!

00:07:31The bell of the cathedral of Notre Dame remind d'Artagnan of his friend and fellow musketeer,

00:07:36Aramis. He might be in danger.

00:07:42Aramis had threatened to continue his flirtations with the pretty owner of a roving, provocative eye,

00:07:47who unfortunately is married to an officer in the cardinal's guards.

00:07:52The guardsman naturally resents these attentions from this musketeer, but is restrained.

00:07:58Has not the cardinal forbidden these duels with the king's musketeers?

00:08:03Hoila! Famous battle cry of the musketeers.

00:08:07Instant help comes from the most fearsome steel in the kingdom.

00:08:12Huge 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!

00:08:30The battle is forming.

00:08:32The cardinal's guards.

00:08:34This is no private fight then, eh?

00:08:36The musketeer is against the cardinal's guard. It 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, five to two, two and a half to one?

00:08:45Ha! Too simple.

00:08:47Draw your skewer, Mr. Half-guardsman. Let's measure half a point.

00:08:53En garde!

00:08:57Come, where's your challenge now? Where's your steel? What's your fear? The law?

00:09:01Does the cardinal still ban a friendly fight with a musketeer or two?

00:09:13Porthos, as always, is thirsty. He has capacity.

00:09:17D'Artagnan, with his quicker eye, has a more bountiful drinking source.

00:09:29Porthos can put out a hand and pick up the potty slavers for. Why waste energy walking?

00:09:35Come, driver. Come inside with us.

00:09:52The old driver swears his wagon is damaged. His master will skin him. His horse is loose.

00:09:56He has a terrible wife. He has trouble. Everybody is mean to him. He has to be mean, too.

00:10:04Ha-ha! Now, take your temper out on me, good friend.

00:10:10All right, now, feel better. Now we can talk.

00:10:13I'll win you the price of your horse and more.

00:10:16Come, guardsman. I challenge you to game. This has not forbidden you.

00:10:28The dice are kind. Here's twenty times your price.

00:10:33The dice are kind. Here's twenty times your price.

00:10:54Well, let's see.

00:11:18His luck riding high, Artagnan returns to the dice game.

00:11:21Laughing and playing a while longer,

00:11:23he 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.

00:11:49Music

00:12:00And thus starts the only battle the musketeers ever lost in fair fight.

00:12:05Of course it has to be with the fair six.

00:12:08Music

00:12:14For the first time in his life,

00:12:16a panic-stricken Porthos screams a terrified,

00:12:18Hoila!

00:12:20Athos hears him.

00:12:23Aramis springs bravely to the side of his comrades

00:12:25and they flee together.

00:12:29But D'Artagnan hears only the pounding of a lover's heart.

00:12:35As the flood of battle at last sweeps close to him,

00:12:38he leaps to meet the foe.

00:12:43And draws his swords.

00:12:45He will fight, yes?

00:12:46No, yes.

00:12:47No, he won't.

00:12:48Here, indeed, discretion is the better part of valor.

00:12:51Caught between the she-devils and the deep blue sea?

00:12:55They choose the water.

00:13:22The next morning, the city is infirmed.

00:13:24The pressure beyond the gates is so great

00:13:27that the people are admitted to the courtyard.

00:13:34Adjoining the Queen's apartment, Constance prepares the layette.

00:13:41She is informed by Father Joseph, the Cardinal's trusted henchman,

00:13:46of the imminence of the royal birth.

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00:14:11I'm sorry.

00:14:24And 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.

00:14:59But in the queen's bedroom, another cry is heard.

00:15:02One of those rare turns of destiny.

00:15:05And Constance is the first to warn the tired, dozing midwife.

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00:15:39Father Joseph grasps the vast consequences of this extraordinary event.

00:15:43This news must be conveyed discreetly to Carton Richelieu

00:15:46before it gets abroad.

00:15:47He writes a message inside the wrapper of some medicine,

00:15:50intends it for the Cardinal's eyes alone.

00:15:59Your medicine, your eminence.

00:16:06The Duke de Rochefort, conniving head of the most powerful faction in court,

00:16:09working always in self-interest against the King and Cardinal,

00:16:12pretending loyalty to both.

00:16:25The 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,

00:16:33becomes inquisitive.

00:16:34He resolves by a simple trick to learn the secret past of the Cardinal.

00:16:41A substitution of scraps of paper.

00:17:00The Cardinal realizes that enemies of the regime can do irreparable damage.

00:17:05Two heirs to the throne.

00:17:08Two rival parties of courtiers.

00:17:11More quarrels, more bloodshed.

00:17:14Poor France, helpless, torn between two factions.

00:17:19The secret of the twins must indeed be forever guarded if France is to have peace and if he,

00:17:27the Cardinal, is to retain his power.

00:17:35No pretender, this, a true prince.

00:17:40De Rochefort sees an opportunity.

00:17:43Father 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.

00:18:19Aware that Constance shares possession of a great secret,

00:18:22one so sacred it might well spell the future of France,

00:18:25the Cardinal charges her to keep her lips sealed.

00:18:43Richelieu entrusts the wily De Rochefort

00:18:45with 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.

00:19:26Meanwhile, in the great ballroom,

00:19:28the king holds a reception in honor of his firstborn.

00:19:30Had he known the cradle should have held two sons,

00:19:33he might have been less self-satisfied

00:19:34with the Cardinal's congratulations.

00:19:42To the notorious Milady de Winter,

00:19:44De 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-Germain.

00:19:55There force her to tell the whole of the Cardinal's secret and plans.

00:19:59He will play one against the other,

00:20:00a Cardinal against King for his own ambition.

00:20:12The Fall of Man is a medical doc.

00:20:17Oh, God!

00:20:23There are so many instances

00:20:23I know this is the biggest cubss.

00:20:24I know this is the Muddy of Nations

00:20:24there wasbol 밝 Publisher

00:20:31There was a castle Alfred

00:20:39Knowing Constance to be one of the chair carriers runs with the news to the Musketeers barracks.

00:21:07D'Artagnan, wake up. Constance taken by force, by de Rochefort.

00:21:26To arms, to horse, rescue!

00:21:33All for one and one for all, and hang the tack.

00:21:52The wily cheetahs in no mood to cross steel with his angry Gascon bet on justice.

00:22:21All Rochefort's thugs are powerless to help them.

00:22:23True.

00:22:36Tell him.

00:22:37The saiyan is asera.

00:22:39Two, three, three!

00:22:44The saiyan is what Phil.

00:22:47The saiyan is what Phil is saying, he has an opportunity to take care of his head,

00:22:47and let's see if he was a security officer.

00:22:47The saiyan is a very good deal.

00:22:47The saiyan is a big deal.

00:22:49The saiyan is what I need to do.

00:22:50I will take care of his government to buy the franca.

00:22:50You can still take care of his force.

00:22:53It's a big deal, some man.

00:22:53Let's go.

00:23:22The Rochefort is stubborn.

00:23:24He will not talk.

00:23:26He has to be persuaded.

00:23:46The probe goes on.

00:23:47Where is she?

00:23:47Where is Constance?

00:23:48Talk 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.

00:24:04A strand at a time, the steel cuts through him.

00:24:07Three strands of it, and now but two.

00:24:16Now one.

00:24:19Ah, the Rochefort breaks, the convent of Saint-Girion.

00:24:27To the rescue.

00:24:34A stableman granted audience for the cardinal, tells of de Rochefort's trickery and capture, and of Constance's abduction by Milady

00:24:40de Winter.

00:24:51Cardinal Richelieu and his escort reached the well to confront the Duke.

00:25:15Accused, exposed, a nervous bedraggled penitent, he confesses that he has indeed played traitor.

00:25:25As eminence breaks de Rochefort, stripping him of his authority and titles banished from both court and country forever.

00:25:40Fearing 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-Girion.

00:26:05Milady de Winter assures the unsuspecting nuns her prisoner is an enemy of the state.

00:26:10To be confined to the convent on orders of the cardinal.

00:26:20The 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.

00:26:40Pursue the cardinal and assassinate him.

00:26:46Next, find D'Artagnan and his three musketeer friends and put them to the sword.

00:26:58The Rochefort still dreams of himself in terms of the most powerful man in France.

00:27:04The path to power is open if Milady de Winter secures the secret from Constance.

00:27:24With sweet words and honeyed entreaties, the unscrupulous Milady de Winter seeks to cajole Constance into telling all she knows.

00:27:55No, Constance Bonacieux is not here. But he hears her voice.

00:28:10Oh la!

00:28:15One for all and all for one.

00:28:21One for all and all for one.

00:28:38The mark of the public criminal, burnt by a branding iron into her flesh, a sign to

00:28:54the wall. Exposed to Constance as a criminal, Milady de Winter is desperate. Caught thus in a second act of

00:29:02crime, by the laws of France, Milady must face public execution.

00:29:11It is her life, or that of Constance.

00:29:48D'Artagnan hears Constance whisper that she loves him, loves him above all men. And then she murmurs three words,

00:29:56the other one, the other one.

00:30:07D'Artagnan strains to hear the faint pulse of her words, but Constance dies. The musketeers take Milady de Winter

00:30:18to her punishment.

00:30:31His Eminence the Cardinal has traveled through the night.

00:30:44He hears the dreadful news from the Mother Superior. Constance is dead.

00:30:56Faithful, loyal Constance.

00:30:58Faithful, loyal Constance.

00:31:19Arrest the murderous Milady de Winter and all in concert with her.

00:31:28The three musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, enraged, take the law into their own hands and deliver the murderers to

00:31:34the public executioner and order her death.

00:31:37Thou...

00:31:45Thou...

00:31:58Then de Rochefort's cut-throats close in on the Cardinal's troop.

00:32:28Come on!

00:32:46Some distance away, the musketeers are captured by their deadliest rivals.

00:32:50The cardinal's guard formally arrests the musketeers for continuing to take the law into their own hands.

00:33:00Disarmed, 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.

00:33:16The 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.

00:33:39D'Artagnan's plea saves his friends, but there's to be a harsh penalty.

00:33:45Richelieu'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.

00:34:02The musketeers are banished, each to his own province, never to visit Paris again.

00:34:07Nor set foot beyond the bounds of his own fields.

00:34:17As for you, D'Artagnan, a splendid soldier, reliable, devoted to, you henceforth shall be bodyguard of the future king,

00:34:29beloved of France, the nation's one.

00:34:31That one fell swoop, all strife is done.

00:34:37The musketeers prepare for their banishment.

00:34:42Godspeed, farewell.

00:34:51Eternal friendship, it shall not pour.

00:34:55All for one, and one for all.

00:35:18Five years have passed.

00:35:21France is at peace.

00:35:22The infant prince grows to boyhood.

00:35:26Cardinal Richelieu, driven hard by the responsibilities of high office, lives in semi-retirement.

00:35:32And a royal father educates his son in courtly etiquette.

00:35:47In 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.

00:36:15The dangers inherent are obvious and weigh heavily on the cardinal's mind.

00:36:19He decides he must protect the prince somehow.

00:36:21His eminence provides that the rightful twin may always be identified from the other.

00:36:27With 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.

00:36:37And 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 are

00:36:53known to one another for all time.

00:36:55He starts to say, I hold a secret.

00:37:00But the chill hand is upon him.

00:37:02The life spring ebbs.

00:37:05And the great voice is silenced.

00:37:24A great statesman passes into history.

00:37:27The church loses a noble servant.

00:37:30And the ship of state is without its pilot.

00:37:35What was this secret that Richelieu and Constance shared?

00:37:39The other one.

00:37:46Across the Spanish border, the prince's twin brother is reared by servants of the late cardinal.

00:37:51The banished to Rochefort, living nearby, holds the twin under his very eye.

00:37:55He bides his time.

00:37:57He is only to wait patiently for the proper day.

00:38:09Upon the death of Louis XIII, the heir to the throne of the Dauphin, as he was called, became France's

00:38:15King Louis XIV.

00:38:17Both he and his twin had grown to manhood.

00:38:19The brothers are alike as two peas in a pod.

00:38:31Twenty 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.

00:38:55During the years, de Rochefort's connivings have brought the exiled twin under his control.

00:39:00Secretly, they have returned to Paris.

00:39:03De Rochefort has lavished upon the usurper the trappings of royalty,

00:39:06teaching 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.

00:39:24The 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.

00:39:38Every detail of their plan has gone over.

00:39:41The map, the sentries to overpower, the secret approach to the royal apartment, the signals.

00:40:08This very week, de Rochefort tells the pretender, you will be his majesty, Louis XIV, king of France.

00:40:16Louis XIV, king of France, spends d'Artagnan's last day in fun and gaiety.

00:40:22The king has applied himself to an education in horsemanship, sportsmanship, and swordsmanship.

00:40:29No two men were ever closer except they were father and son.

00:40:42The king, the king, the queen was aandnui, and did the king of France.

00:41:02The king of France is a duper.

00:41:02The king of France is an education in many countries.

00:41:05Because the fire is early, D'Artagnan enters the royal bedchamber to bid the king goodbye.

00:41:11Tonight he feels happy, his service is done, his king is secure, the state is safe,

00:41:15but by some odd premonition the coins are matched on this final night of parting.

00:41:52In 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 ruffles.

00:42:01Angrily, the Gascon plans his battle. First 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.

00:42:15On to the balcony.

00:42:30There, they believe, goes D'Artagnan.

00:42:41A thoughtful D'Artagnan returns to his lodging.

00:42:45For a peaceful man to be waylaid on a city street is something new.

00:42:51He had spent the evening with his king.

00:42:54He reflects, has the palace discipline been slackening too?

00:43:00Centuries were not where they should have been.

00:43:02His soldierly heart is disturbed for the safety of his king.

00:43:21The Rochefort's plan is working without a hitch.

00:43:24Centuries 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.

00:43:35Success.

00:43:36No sound.

00:43:38No word.

00:43:39No warning.

00:44:05The pretender waits impatiently below for the deed which will make him king.

00:44:18In the ante-room to the king's bedchamber,

00:44:20de Rochefort's maggot awaits his master's signal.

00:44:23Ready for the final treachery.

00:44:49And a little after eleven o'clock on this fateful night,

00:44:53in one tragic moment, France loses her rightful king.

00:45:22Bewildered, uncertain if he dreams or not,

00:45:24King Louis XIV, surrounded by strangers, looks unbelievingly at a venomously mirrored likeness of himself.

00:45:35The usurper watches his royal brother with a lifetime of hate.

00:45:42The Rochefort's plans have been cleverly checked and double-checked.

00:45:45He means to hold the true king of prisoner as a threat over the head of the usurper,

00:45:49should he rebel against his commands.

00:45:54At de Rochefort's order, his cohorts strip the king of his night attire,

00:45:58and in exchange dress him in the usurper's clothes.

00:46:15Into the palace cellars a messenger reports breathlessly.

00:46:18D'Artagnan is dead.

00:46:20His body thrown in the river.

00:46:23Complete triumph at last.

00:46:36An iron mask.

00:46:38An invention of the devil.

00:46:40An iron mask, a prison within a prison,

00:46:42is placed over the head of the rightful King Louis XIV,

00:46:45and locked at the neck.

00:46:47His countenance concealed from all men.

00:47:01The true king is led away.

00:47:10In the quiet of the royal apartments,

00:47:12the true king's bed is occupied by the usurper.

00:47:16Trusted servitors have been spirited away.

00:47:18The twins' lackeys have replaced them.

00:47:25To Rochefort's plan is complete.

00:47:31Poor France.

00:47:34Ruled by a youth driven near to lunacy,

00:47:36by a solitary childhood,

00:47:38by de Rochefort's lies,

00:47:39by his own poisoned dreams.

00:47:41Truly a madman.

00:47:49Suffering in human life is proportioned to human strength.

00:47:53When the young king, stupefied and crushed,

00:47:56found himself led a prisoner to a cell

00:47:58in the Chateau Sainte-Marguerite

00:47:59in the south of France,

00:48:01he fancied at first that death is like sleep

00:48:04and has its dreams.

00:48:06He believed himself to be a spectator.

00:48:08A palpable phantom of his own suffering.

00:48:12A torture the more terrible since it might be eternal.

00:48:16Eternal death.

00:48:18How can I have died?

00:48:21I am a king, yet not a king,

00:48:23enthroned upon a funereal couch.

00:48:26No.

00:48:27No, dear God,

00:48:28do not punish me who have done nothing.

00:48:31Why am I thus punished?

00:48:34Like a cloak,

00:48:35the chill of the dungeon falls upon his shoulders.

00:48:40So dwells the real Louis XIV

00:48:42in a living hell to remain thus

00:48:44the rest of his days.

00:48:55The Queen Mother,

00:48:57always restricted,

00:48:58prevented from seeing her son,

00:49:00determines finally to pay him a visit.

00:49:07In place of the affectionate and courtly Louis XIV,

00:49:11to her horror she finds herself repulsed.

00:49:17Doubts.

00:49:18Again doubts.

00:49:21What strange malady besets my son?

00:49:24She thinks again of the other one.

00:49:29The Rochefort hurries to the king's apartment,

00:49:31fearful that a mother's heart has sensed the truth.

00:49:35In pretence of humility,

00:49:36he asks the Queen Mother to leave.

00:49:39Affairs of state.

00:49:40and Tales corrected.

00:49:58Te64 is determined,

00:50:01it shall not happen again,

00:50:03and whispers death.

00:50:13Day by day, night upon night, the prisoner prays for some way to get word to D'Artagnan.

00:50:19A heaven-sent fisherman hoves to.

00:50:32He finishes scratching a message into pewter, and as all good prayers must be, his prayer is answered.

00:50:46Militant mackerel are running, and then a catch, apparently from heaven.

00:50:59The fisherman reads the name of D'Artagnan, the idol of the nation.

00:51:04A written word, a beloved name, an urgent message.

00:51:07He, a patriot, needs no urging.

00:51:24Paris 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 him.

00:51:47The fisherman blurts his weird news.

00:51:50A story hard to believe.

00:51:51A 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.

00:52:18Come, friend, eat and drink.

00:52:20There is business at last for me at the palace.

00:52:49D'Artagnan finds himself a stranger.

00:52:52in a strange atmosphere and there is reason he thinks for this curious tension to rochefort and

00:52:59the king this cannot be the boy i helped nurture into manhood this is not the face of my king

00:53:06those are not his hands at risk neither parried steel nor engaged a point what's been happening

00:53:12at court to rochefort's back in favor a disgraced exile once more sporting about the throne room

00:53:18in the king's presence d'artagnan is amazed and shocked but a further shock is in store a chain

00:53:27and coin is passed to de rochefort if he can believe his eyes in all the years he served the

00:53:32king they

00:53:33never left his royal person he overhears a snatch of conversation the other one and suddenly he hears

00:53:42the dying voice of constance the other one the other one

00:53:54what did she mean

00:53:59a message signed by the royal coin a king not a king and a court alive with known traitors d

00:54:07'artagnan

00:54:07smells a rat but a rat has seen him and gives warning the palace guards are alerted and all exits

00:54:16barred

00:54:37little do they reckon with a resourceful old musketeer

00:54:49d'artagnan orders a king's loyal troop to be hurried to meet him at the chateau saint marguerite

00:54:56couriers are to be dispatched to his old friends the three musketeers athos pothos and aramis

00:55:01musketeers to arms musketeers your king has need of you one for all and all for one

00:55:13the jig is up d'artagnan lives and knows there's pewter plate perhaps even now he has reached the prison

00:55:29gate the 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

00:55:56attempt to free the king

00:55:57the puzzle d'artagnan has reached the chateau saint marguerite certain that his comrades will join him

00:56:05under cover of the raging storm he rose to the grotto beneath the castle

00:56:09many a time as a young officer he had patrolled his grotto passage

00:56:14it led he knew to the arsenal beyond that the armory then the main hall and staircase to the tower

00:56:20itself up there is the man in the iron mask the writer of the message

00:56:36to his astonishment d'artagnan finds the entrance to the arsenal is newly walled

00:57:01the old war horse is prepared to hazard it alone if necessary

00:57:16the fisherman returns to the opposite bank to await the arrival of help

00:57:34a few years older a little more grizzled the same brave companion as of old

00:57:39ready and willing for any gambit

00:57:56and now aramis

00:58:17and now

00:58:19and

00:58:30and

00:58:32and

00:58:41Now two of the valiant comrades have arrived.

00:58:43No time to wait for old Porthos, no time for explanations.

00:58:47There's a job to be done.

00:58:49Forward!

00:58:54Through the racks of gunpowder barrels to the main hall

00:58:57and the tower staircase itself.

00:59:01No, no sir!

00:59:24Where's the prisoner before your dalit tastes this edge,

00:59:27you bloated villain?

01:00:03At last, D'Artagnan knows the voice.

01:00:07It is his true and rightful king, Louis XIV, king of France.

01:00:16The castle guards.

01:00:23The challenge is met.

01:00:27Hoorah!

01:00:28The musketeers fight together again.

01:00:49The musketeers fight together again.

01:00:50The war is the time she could do.

01:00:50The men in theliners around the world were the same way.

01:00:50A lot of little men should be the most vulnerable women who were doing.

01:00:55The men should be the same way as he is.

01:01:00The women should be a man.

01:01:13Let's go.

01:01:40Let's go.

01:02:01I'm eager on that account and thirsty as much for the sight of his companions as for a little drop

01:02:05of blood.

01:02:36Let's go.

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01:10:12coming that once again they might be one how can they die these bright ones how

01:10:20may such energy once released be prisoned by earth or stone or grave we die as we

01:10:27lived say they with life and with life how can there be death

01:10:34only remember us only open a little book and we shall always be with you to ride

01:10:39a fine horse or to cross a sharp blade or carouse with a barrel or dally with a

01:10:44maid come one come all

01:10:58and so passed a brave and glorious man in honor only think and we live again we

01:11:06live forever for 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 when blood was

01:11:20young and hate was bold and sword crossed sword to do or die for love and honor

01:11:25glory then when life was life and men were men

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The Iron Mask (1952) – Louis Hayward in a Swashbuckling Dumas Adventure

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