The Iron Mask

In 1929 as the silent cinema succumbed to the rise of sound technology, Douglas Fairbanks bade farewell to his swashbuckling persona with this lavish adventure film, the glorious last hurrah of big-screen chivalry. In a return to Fairbank's favorite literary character - Dumas' heroic D'Artagnan, whom he had portrayed in 1921's The Three Musketeers - The Iron Mask find D'Artagnan's romance with Constance (Marguerite De La Motte) and his brotherhood with the Musketeers threatened by the sinister Cardinal Richelieu (Nigel De Brulier) and Count De Rochefort (Ulrich Haupt). (official distributor synopsis)