The Three Musketeers ((film)
Cast
Michael York - d'Artagnan
Oliver Reed - Athos
Frank Finlay - Porthos
Richard Chamberlain - Aramis
Jean-Pierre Cassel -(King) Louis XIII
Geraldine Chaplin - (Queen) Anne
of Austria
Charlton Heston - Cardinal Richelieu
Faye Dunaway - Milady
de Winter
Christopher Lee - the Count De Rochefort
Simon Ward - the Duke
of Buckingham
Raquel Welch - Constance Bonacieux
Spike Milligan - M. Bonancieux
Roy Kinnear - Planchet
Plot
The Three Musketeers is a 1973 film
based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. Directed by Richard Lester
and written by George MacDonald Fraser. The film was originally intended to run
for three hours, but later the film was split in two (resulting in 1974's The
Four Musketeers). The actors themselves were not informed that they were working
on two films simultaneously, only Charlton Heston — handsomely paid for his
handful of scenes — did not feel cheated by this duplicity. In 1989, the
cast and crew returned to film The Return of the Musketeers, loosely based on
Dumas' Twenty Years After.
The film adheres strongly to the novel, but it
also injects a fair amount of humour. The films were shot by David Watkins, with
an eye for period detail. The fight scenes were choreographed by master swordsman
William Hobbs and turn the swashbuckling movies of the Forties and Fifties on
their collective ear; these are more like brawls, with the combatants using knees,
fists, furniture and even wet laundry as often as they do their swords.
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