The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film) 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. In 1662, the Kingdom of France faces bankruptcy from King Louis XIV's wars against the Dutch Republic, which has left the country's agriculture impeded by a heavy tax burden and forced the citizens to live on rotten food. Though the
The Man in the High Castle located in deep space, sees to it that nothing, absolutely nothing, can prevent Abendsen from finishing his novel.The novel eventually evolved into a new story unrelated to "The Man in the High Castle." Dick ultimately abandoned the "Albemuth" book, unpublished during his lifetime, though portions were salvaged and used for 1981's "VALIS". The full book was published in 1985, three years after Dick's death. The Man in the High Castle The Man in the High Castle (1962) is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Set in 1962, fifteen years after an alternative ending to World War