The Face Behind the Mask

The Face Behind the Mask (1938)


  • Genre: Documentary, Mystery, History
  • Release Date: 1938-03-19
  • User Rating: 5.4/10 from 5 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 11min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Jacques Tourneur
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Summary

This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King Louis XIV imprisoned a man who was never identified, but who was forced to wear an iron mask for the length of his captivity, which ended only in his death. Several candidates for the identity of the man are investigated.

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  • John Nesbitt

    as Narrator (voice)

  • Carlos De Valdez

    as Bit Part (uncredited)

  • Jack Deery

    as Bit Part (uncredited)

  • Ivo Henderson

    as Bit Part (uncredited)

  • Mary Howard

    as La Vallière, The King's Sweetheart (uncredited)

  • George W. Jimenez

    as Spanish King (uncredited)

  • Edward Keane

    as Nicholas Fouquet (uncredited)

  • Michael Mark

    as Peasant (uncredited)

  • Andre Marsaudon

    as Bit Part (uncredited)

  • Thomas R. Mills

    as Governor (uncredited)

  • Leonard Penn

    as Louis XIV, The Man in the Iron Mask (uncredited)

  • George Sorel

    as Count Mattioli (uncredited)

  • E. Alyn Warren

    as Bit Part (uncredited)

  • Lyons Wickland

    as The Mask (uncredited)

  • Harry Worth

    as Louis XIII (uncredited)
Directing Jacques Tourneur Director
Production Jack Chertok Producer
Camera Paul Vogel Director of Photography
Writing Milton Gunzburg Screenplay

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