The Three Musketeers is a 1973 film based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. Directed by Richard Lester and writen by George MacDonald Fraser (famous for his Flashman series of historical comic novels). 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). In 1989, the cast and crew returned to film The Return of the Musketeers, loosely based on Dumas' Twenty Years After. // Events The Marx Brothers Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. ... DArtagnan and the Musketeers The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... Alexandre Dumas redirects here. ... Richard Lester (born January 19, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a UK based film director famous for his work with The Beatles. ... George MacDonald Fraser (born 1926 in Carlisle, England) is a writer of Scottish descent. ... Harry Paget Flashman is a fictional character originally created by the author Thomas Hughes in his semi-autobiographical work Tom Browns Schooldays, first published in 1857. ... See also: 1973 in film 1974 1975 in film 1970s in film years in film film // Events February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in USA May 1 - George Lucas creates the first draft of what would eventually become Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. ... The Four Musketeers is the title of a 1974 Richard Lester film, which follows upon his film of the previous year, The Three Musketeers, and covers the second half of Dumass novel. ... // Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia for $20 million. ... The Return of the Musketeers is a 1989 film based on the novel Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... Twenty Years After (Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ...

The film adheres strongly to the novel, but it also injects a fair amount of humour, and the film itself has garnered much critical praise. The two films together are generally considered to be the best filmed version of the famous adventure story [1]. It is certainly Lester's best film work apart from A Hard Day's Night. Fraser's Flashman novels manage the difficult trick of saluting heroism even as they satirize it, and that spirit infuses the movies, which have the debunking spirit of the cynical Seventies but are still exhilirating to watch. (It helps that both films are gorgeously shot by David Watkins, with a keen eye for period detail.) The spectacular fight scenes (choreographed by master swordsman William Hobbs) 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. // The British release A Hard Days Night was The Beatles third album, released in 1964 as the soundtrack to their first film of the same name. ... Harry Paget Flashman is a fictional character originally created by the author Thomas Hughes in his semi-autobiographical work Tom Browns Schooldays, first published in 1857. ...

The casting could hardly be bettered, and the actors play off each other with obvious relish: Oliver Reed as the brooding Athos, Frank Finlay as the preening Porthos, Richard Chamberlain as the elegant womanizer Aramis, and an impossibly trim Michael York as the lethal bumpkin D'Artagnan. Christopher Lee and Faye Dunaway are wonderful as the chief villains.

If there is any complaint to be made, it is that the shift to a darker tone in The Four Musketeers could have been handled more smoothly, and the ending is quite abrupt. The Four Musketeers is the title of a 1974 Richard Lester film, which follows upon his film of the previous year, The Three Musketeers, and covers the second half of Dumass novel. ...

Cast

• Michael York as d'Artagnan
• Oliver Reed as Athos
• Frank Finlay as Porthos
• Richard Chamberlain as Aramis
• Jean-Pierre Cassel as Louis XIII
• Geraldine Chaplin as Anne of Austria
• Charlton Heston as Richelieu
• Faye Dunaway as Milady de Winter
• Christopher Lee as the Count De Rochefort
• Raquel Welch as Constance Bonacieux
• Spike Milligan as M. Bonancieux
• Roy Kinnear as Planchet

Michael York OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson, March 27, 1942) is a prolific British actor, more recently best known among mainstream audiences for his role of Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers series of films. ... Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte dArtagnan (c. ... Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 – May 2, 1999) was an English actor known for his macho image on and off screen. ... Athos is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... Frank Finlay, CBE (born 6 August 1926 in Farnworth, in Bolton, Lancashire, England) is a British stage, film and television actor of English, Irish and Scottish descent. ... Porthos is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas. ... Richarde Chamberlin, right, as John Blackthorne, and John Rhys-Davies, left, as the Portuguese Pilot Vasco Rodrigues in the Shogun television miniseries. ... René dHerblay Aramis is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas. ... Jean-Pierre Cassel is a french actor, born 1932 in Paris. ... Louis XIII (September 27, 1601 – May 14, 1643), called the Just (French: le Juste), was King of France from 1610 to 1643. ... Geraldine Chaplin (born July 31, 1944 in Santa Monica, California) is an Anglo-American actress. ... Anne of Austria by Peter Paul Rubens, c. ... Charlton Heston (born October 4, 1924) is an Academy Award-winning American film actor noted for heroic roles and his long involvement in political issues. ... Cardinal Richelieu was the French chief minister from 1624 until his death. ... Faye Dunaway at Cannes, 2001 Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941, in Bascom, Florida) is an Academy Award-winning actress. ... Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE (born May 27, 1922 in Belgravia, London) is a legendary and prolific English actor known for his versatility, his professional longevity, and his distinctive basso delivery. ... The Comte de Rochefort was a secondary, but important, character in Alexandre Dumas, pères dArtagnan Romances. ... Raquel Welch on the film poster for One Million Years B.C. Raquel Welch (born September 5, 1940) is an American actress. ... Terence Alan Milligan, KBE (16 April 1918–27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was a writer, artist, musician, humanitarian and comedian. ... Roy Kinnear (January 8, 1934 – September 20, 1988) was a prolific English character actor. ...

See also

• See The Three Musketeers (film) for a list of other Musketeer adaptations.

The Three Musketeers, a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père has been filmed many times. ...

External link

• The Three Musketeers at the Internet Movie Database