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The Three Musketeers (1973) 7.3
A young swordsman comes to Paris and faces villains, romance, adventure and intrigue with three Musketeer friends. Director:Richard Lester |
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| Oliver Reed | ... | ||
| Raquel Welch | ... | ||
| Richard Chamberlain | ... | ||
| Michael York | ... | ||
| Frank Finlay | ... | ||
| Christopher Lee | ... | ||
| Geraldine Chaplin | ... | ||
| Jean-Pierre Cassel | ... |
Louis XIII
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| Spike Milligan | ... | ||
| Roy Kinnear | ... | ||
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Georges Wilson | ... | |
| Simon Ward | ... | ||
| Faye Dunaway | ... | ||
| Charlton Heston | ... | ||
| Joss Ackland | ... | ||
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The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux and the passionate Lady De Winter, a secret agent for the cardinal. Written by Eric Sorensen <Eric_Sorensen@fc.mcps.k12.md.us>
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EnglishRelease Date:
29 March 1974 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
The Three Musketeers: The Queen's Diamonds See more »Box Office
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SEK 1,305,775 (Sweden)Company Credits
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[quickly exits]
Porthos: [looks after him, then to Athos] Who was that?
Athos: I don't know, but he sounded a touch foreign to me. Didn't he?
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The Duke of Buckingham's billiard room and the long hall behind it at his English estate is a leftover set from Patton, it is also seen in The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge, where Milady and Buckingham speak about American Indians and also serves as a set of rooms in The Return of the Musketeers for a different character in France some 10 years after the action of the first two films. Also, the gown worn by Faye Dunaway during the Ball sequence at the end, is also the main gown worn by Jenny Agutter in The Man in the Iron Mask. See more »Goofs
When in the beginning of the first fight in the Carmalite convent, D'Artagnan shouts at Porthos for a sword, calling him Aramis. See more »Quotes
Duke of Buckingham: [the Musketeers have unwittingly rescued the Duke of Buckingham from Richilieu's men] I could have managed on my own, but my thanks for your assistance, gentlemen.[quickly exits]
Porthos: [looks after him, then to Athos] Who was that?
Athos: I don't know, but he sounded a touch foreign to me. Didn't he?
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Watching this and its 'sequel' only confirms the tragedy of Oliver Reed's flirtation with the bottle, and he is just one of the wonderful cast. What is especially impressive to me is that with so much scenery available to be chewed, none of the cost set their teeth to it but act in as an ensemble.
This and "Four" represent a Victorian telling of the tale in a theater: dauntless heroes, villains that can be freely hissed and heroines worth taking up the sword to defend, and by the time Lady deWinter has strangled Constance at the end of the second part and is sent to her death, and Rochefort is vanquised, the heroes appear on stage again in the wonderful coda.
Lester creates a dirty, brawling world complete with cows, sheep, pigs and men with dirt and filth on their clothes. The dandies are on the side of wrong; those who sprawl in the mud are the good guys. Yes, it bears similarity to Hard Days Night, but Lester was more than that, as anyone who has seen Petulia will agree.
George Macdonald Fraser, who wrote the script, also created the Flashman books. In the same years as the Musketeers, there was also Royal Flash, a film I have not seen in ages.