Man in the Iron Mask 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". The earliest surviving records of the masked prisoner are from late July 1669, when Louis XIV's minister, the Marquis de Louvois, sent a letter to Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars, governor of the prison of Pignerol, which at the time was part of France. In his letter, Louvois informed Saint-Mars that a prisoner named "Eustache Dauger" was due to arrive in the next month or so. Louvois instructed
The Fifth Musketeer 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 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 directed by Ken Annakin, and