The Man in the Iron Mask (1977 film)

The Man in the Iron Mask is a 1977 television film directed by Mike Newell, loosely adapted from the 1847–1850 novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas and presenting several plot similarities with the 1939 film adaptation.

Produced by Norman Rosemont for ITC Entertainment, it stars Richard Chamberlain as King Louis XIV and his twin Philippe, Patrick McGoohan as Nicolas Fouquet, Ralph Richardson as Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis Jourdan as D'Artagnan, and Ian Holm as the Chevalier Duval, with Jenny Agutter plays Louis XIV's mistress, Louise de la Vallière and Vivien Merchant as Queen Marie-Therese.

Philippe is the firstborn and rightful king, who had been spirited away at birth and raised with no knowledge of his true identity in a plot by Cardinal Mazarin to manipulate Louis before his own death.

Colbert and D'Artagnan plot to replace Louis (who is an ineffective king more interested in dancing and pleasure than the welfare of France) with Philippe, and in the process bring down the corrupt finance minister Fouquet, who has embezzled from the national treasury.

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