The Three Masks (French: Les trois masques) is a 1929 French film directed by André Hugon and starring Renée Héribel, Jean Toulout and François Rozet.
[2] Produced by Pathé the film is considered to be a candidate for France's first talking picture, but was made in Britain.
[4] The first American sound films had premiered in Europe, followed by Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail in 1929.
The film is based on the 1908 play of the same title by Charles Méré, which had previously been made into a 1921 silent The Three Masks by Henry Krauss.
In Corsica two brothers decide to take revenge against the young man who has got their sister pregnant, unaware that he is trying to marry her in the face of his father's opposition.