Randall Wallace
Randall Wallace( born July 28, 1949) is an American screenwriter, film director, producer, and songwriter who came to prominence by writing the screenplay for the historical drama film" Braveheart"( 1995).
His work on the film earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Writers Guild of America Award in the same category.
He has since directed films such as" The Man in the Iron Mask"( 1998)," We Were Soldiers"( 2002)," Secretariat"( 2010) and" Heaven Is for Real"( 2014).
The Fifth Musketeer
The Fifth Musketeer is a 1979 German- Austrian film adaptation of the last section of the novel by Alexandre Dumas, père, which is itself based on the French legend of the Man in the Iron Mask.
It was released in Europe with the alternative title" Behind the Iron Mask".
It was directed by Ken Annakin, and stars Beau Bridges as the twins( Louis XIV and Philippe of Gascony), Sylvia Kristel as Maria Theresa, Ursula Andress as Louise de La Vallière, Cornel Wilde as d' Artagnan, Ian McShane as Fouquet, Rex Harrison as Colbert( Philippe's tutor), and Lloyd Bridges, José Ferrer and Alan Hale Jr. as the Three Musketeers.
Olivia de Havilland made a cameo appearance as the Queen Mother.
This was de Havilland's final theatrical film.
The cinematographer was Jack Cardiff.
In what may have been an instance of stunt casting, Alan Hale Jr. played the same character, Porthos, that his lookalike father, Alan Hale Sr., did in 1939's" The Man in the Iron Mask".
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939 film)
The Man in the Iron Mask is a 1939 American film very loosely adapted from the last section of the 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 was Peter Cushing's screen debut.
It was also notable for being the source of several subsequent remakes.
The film was directed by James Whale and stars Louis Hayward as royal twins, Joan Bennett as Princess Maria Theresa, Warren William as d' Artagnan, and Joseph Schildkraut as Nicolas Fouquet.
The Monocle Laughs
The Monocle Laughs or The Monocle
( French: Le monocle rit jaune, Italian: L'ispettore spara a vista) is a 1964 French- Italian comedy thriller film directed by Georges Lautner and starring Paul Meurisse, Marcel Dalio and Olivier Despax.
It is the third in a trilogy of films directed by Lautner and starring Meurisse.
It is preceded by" The Black Monocle"( 1961) and" The Eye of the Monocle"( 1962).
The Black Monocle
The Black Monocle
( French: Le monocle noir) is a 1961 French comedy crime film directed by Georges Lautner and starring Paul Meurisse, Elga Andersen and Bernard Blier.
It was followed by two sequels" The Eye of the Monocle"( 1962) and" The Monocle Laughs"( 1964).
Lady in the Iron Mask
Lady in the Iron Mask is a 1952 film directed by Ralph Murphy, produced by Walter Wanger and starring Louis Hayward as D'Artagnan and Patricia Medina in the titular 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 novel" The Vicomte de Bragelonne" by Alexandre Dumas, père, which is itself based on the French legend of the Man in the Iron Mask.
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.
Georges Lautner
Georges Lautner( 24 January 1926 – 22 November 2013) was a French film director and screenwriter, known primarily for his comedies created in collaboration with screenwriter Michel Audiard.
Lautner's ventures into other genres were less successful though the thriller Le Professionnel starring Jean- Paul Belmondo was a big commercial hit in France in 1981.
He was born in Nice, the son of actress Renée Saint- Cyr.
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)
The Man in the Iron Mask is a 1998 American action drama film directed, produced, and written by Randall Wallace, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio in a dual role as the title character and villain, Jeremy Irons as Aramis, John Malkovich as Athos, Gerard Depardieu as Porthos, and Gabriel Byrne as D'Artagnan.
The picture uses characters from Alexandre Dumas's D'Artagnan Romances and is very loosely adapted from some plot elements of" The Vicomte de Bragelonne".
The film centers on the aging four musketeers, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan, during the reign of King Louis XIV and attempts to explain the mystery of the Man in the Iron Mask, using a plot more closely related to the flamboyant 1929 version starring Douglas Fairbanks," The Iron Mask", and the 1939 version directed by James Whale, than to the original Dumas book.
Like the 1998 version, the two aforementioned adaptations were also released through United Artists.
The Iron Mask
The Iron Mask is a 1929 American part- talkie adventure film directed by Allan Dwan.
It is an adaptation of the last section of the novel" The Vicomte de Bragelonne" by Alexandre Dumas, père, which is itself based on the French legend of the Man in the Iron Mask.
Man in the Iron Mask
The Man in the Iron Mask( French:" L' Homme au Masque de Fer"; c.
1640 – 19 November 1703) was an unidentified prisoner who was arrested in 1669 or 1670 and subsequently held in a number of French prisons, including the Bastille and the Fortress of Pignerol( modern Pinerolo, Italy).
He was held in the custody of the same jailer, Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint- Mars, for a period of 34 years.
He died on 19 November 1703 under the name" Marchioly", during the reign of King Louis XIV of France( 1643 – 1715).
Since no one ever saw his face because it was hidden by a mask of black velvet cloth, the true identity of the prisoner remains a mystery; it has been extensively debated by historians, and various theories have been expounded in numerous books and films.
Among the leading theories are those proposed by writer and philosopher Voltaire: he claimed in the second edition of his" Questions sur l' Encyclopédie"( 1771) that the prisoner wore a mask made of iron rather than of cloth, and that he was the older, illegitimate brother of Louis XIV.
What little is known about the historical Man in the Iron Mask is based mainly on correspondence between Saint- Mars and his superiors in Paris.
Recent research suggests that his name might have been" Eustache Dauger", a man who was involved in several political scandals of the late 17th century, but this assertion has not been proven, either.
The National Archives of France has made available( online) the original data relating to the inventories of the goods and papers of Saint- Mars( one inventory, of 64 pages, was drawn up at the Bastille in 1708; the other, of 68 pages, at the citadel of Sainte- Marguerite in 1691).
These documents had been sought in vain for more than a century and were thought to have been lost.
They were discovered in 2015, among the 100 million documents of the.
They show that some of the 800 documents in the possession of the jailer Saint- Mars were analysed after his death.
These documents confirm the reputed avarice of Saint- Mars, who appears to have diverted the funds paid by the king for the prisoner.
They also give a description of a cell occupied by the masked prisoner, which contained only a sleeping mat, but no luxuries, as was previously thought.
With the scientific support of the National Library of France collections of ancient textiles, the accuracy of these notary documents discovered in 2015 has allowed the creation of the first virtual reconstruction of the prison of the man in the iron mask.
The Man in the Iron Mask has also appeared in many works of fiction, most prominently in the late 1840s by Alexandre Dumas.
A section of his novel, the final installment of his D'Artagnan saga, features the Man in the Iron Mask.
Here the prisoner is forced to wear an iron mask and is portrayed as Louis XIV's identical twin.
Dumas also presented a review of the popular theories about the prisoner extant in his time in the chapter" L'homme au masque de fer" in the sixth volume of his non-fiction" Crimes Célèbres".

Question: Do both films: The Monocle Laughs and The Man In The Iron Mask (1998 Film) have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no