.

.

Sunday, August 3, 2014

The Iron Mask (1929 reissued in 1952)

An American action adventure film directed by Allan Dwan, starring and narrated by Douglas Fairbanks.
The swashbuckling team of the 3 Musketeers is split up and twins are born to the French royal family. One of the twins is the heir to the throne and the other is exiled to live as a commoner. The rightful heir is then imprisoned and the other twin installed into royal power in his place. The Musketeers must reunite to sort out the problem with the twins and make sure that the right one is king.
I didn't like the last film that I watched in which Douglas Fairbanks had dialogue, but this is totally different. The action star narrates adventure quite well and the music is very fitting. The video looked about how video from 1929 would be expected to look, but there was some style in the a/v combo. The political part of the plot was a little hard for me to follow, but the copious amounts of action made up for this. I must say again that the narration was spot-on as Fairbanks described in an energetic voice, using eloquent words the action that was going on. I rate this adequate.

No comments:

Post a Comment