The King's Prisoner (1954 film)

1954 film

The King's Prisoner
French poster
Directed by	Giorgio Venturini
Written by	Dominique Vincent Jacques Viot
Based on	The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
Produced by	Giorgio Venturini
Starring	Pierre Cressoy Andrée Debar Armando Francioli
Cinematography	Arturo Gallea
Edited by	Loris Bellero
Music by	Ezio Carabella
Production company	Venturini Film
Distributed by	Venturini Film
Release date	29 July 1954 (1954-07-29)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The King's Prisoner (Italian: Il prigioniero del re) is a 1954 Italian historical adventure film directed by Giorgio Venturini and starring Pierre Cressoy, Andrée Debar and Armando Francioli. It is based on the novel The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas.

The film's sets and costumes were designed by the art director Giancarlo Bartolini Salimbeni. It was shot in Ferraniacolor and earned around 269 million lira at the box office.

Cast

Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991.
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Klossner, Michael. The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000. McFarland & Company, 2002.

The d'Artagnan Romances by Alexandre Dumas

Characters

Films

The Three
Musketeers

Twenty Years
After

The Vicomte of
Bragelonne

Other sequels

Animated

The Four Musketeers (1936) Three Blind Mouseketeers (1936) The Three Musketeers (1974) Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004) Barbie and the Three Musketeers (2009) Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds (2021)
Tom and Jerry	The Two Mouseketeers Touché, Pussy Cat! Tom and Chérie Royal Cat Nap

Television

Series

Live-action	The Three Musketeers (1954) The Three Musketeers (1966) The Mind Robber (1968) d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) Young Blades (2005) The Three Musketeers (2009–10) (puppetry) The Musketeers (2014)
Animated	The Three Musketeers (1968) Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds (1981) The Three Musketeers Anime (1987–89) The Return of Dogtanian (1989) Albert the Fifth Musketeer (1993–94)

Films

Live-action	The Three Musketeers (1959) The Three Musketeers (1969) The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) La Femme Musketeer (2004)
Animated	The Three Musketeers (1973) The Man in the Iron Mask (1985) Dogtanian: Special (1985) The Three Musketeers (1986) Dogtanian: One For All and All For One (1995)

Games

Musicals

Other
adaptations

The Three Mesquiteers Dog in Boots The Three Must-Get-Theres The Three Mouseketeers (comics) The Three Musketeers (South Korean adaptation) Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (video game)
Khaavren Romances	The Phoenix Guards Five Hundred Years After The Viscount of Adrilankha The Baron of Magister Valley

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