Lady in the Iron Mask

Lady in the Iron Mask
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ralph Murphy
Screenplay by	Jack Pollexfen Aubrey Wisberg
Based on	The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
Produced by	Walter Wanger Eugene Frenke
Starring	Louis Hayward Patricia Medina Alan Hale, Jr.
Cinematography	Ernest Laszlo
Edited by	Bruce B. Pierce
Music by	Dimitri Tiomkin
Color process	Supercinecolor
Production company	Walter Wanger Productions
Distributed by	20th Century-Fox
Release date	July 4, 1952 (1952-07-04)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Lady in the Iron Mask is a 1952 American adventure film directed by Ralph Murphy, produced by Walter Wanger and starring Louis Hayward as D'Artagnan and Patricia Medina in the title role. Alan Hale, Jr. portrays Porthos, Judd Holdren plays Aramis, and Steve Brodie appears as Athos in this Three Musketeers adventure film, a reworking of Douglas Fairbanks' 1929 screen epic The Iron Mask, an adaptation of the last section of the 1847-1850 novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père, which is itself based on the French legend of the Man in the Iron Mask. The film's sets were designed by the art director Martin Obzina and shot in Supercinecolor.

Louis Hayward had played the dual role of the imprisoned prince and his twin in the 1939 version The Man in the Iron Mask while Alan Hale, Sr. portrayed Porthos, and in what may have been an instance of stunt casting, the same part was subsequently played by his lookalike son Alan Hale, Jr. in Lady in the Iron Mask thirteen years later.

Cast

• Louis Hayward as D'Artagnan
• Patricia Medina as Princess Anne / Princess Louise
• John Sutton as Duke de Valdac
• Steve Brodie as Athos
• Alan Hale Jr. as Porthos
• Judd Holdren as Aramis
• Hal Gerard as Philip of Spain
• Lester Matthews as Prime Minister Rochard
• John Dehner as Count de Fourrier
• Keith Hitchcock as Chevalier La Porte
• Esther Howard as Madame Duprez
• Tor Johnson as Renac

External links

• Lady in the Iron Mask at IMDb