The Fifth Musketeer

The Fifth Musketeer (1979)

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King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediately locks up his brother in the Bastille. The king wants to increase his popularity and stages an assassination against himself where Philippe is dressed as king Louis. But Philippe manages to escape the assassination and everybody believes him to be the real king...

Date of release
1979-04-06
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (17)
Runtime
1h 56m
Genres
Action, History
Director
Ken Annakin

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later

The Fifth Musketeer is a 1979 German-Austrian film adaptation of the last section of the 1847–1850 novel The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later 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.

Production

Filming took place in September 1976 under the title Behind the Iron Mask to avoid confusion with a TV movie adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later called The Man in the Iron Mask.

The film was shot in and around Vienna, Austria at locations including Schönbrunn Palace, Auersperg Palace, Votive Church, Liechtenstein Castle and Kreuzenstein Castle. Sylvia Kristel's lines were reportedly dubbed in by another actress. She was paid $300,000.

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 the 1939 film The Man in the Iron Mask. Hale Jr. also played Porthos in Lady in the Iron Mask (1952) and Porthos Jr. in At Sword's Point (1952).

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