The Four Musketeers

"What could be better than The Three Musketeers?"

1974 1h 47m EN

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★6.5TMDB · 232

ActionAdventureComedyDrama

Synopsis

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The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.

“What could be better than The Three Musketeers?”

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Cast

Michael York
D'Artagnan
Oliver Reed
Athos
Richard Chamberlain
Aramis
Frank Finlay
Porthos
Faye Dunaway
Milady de Winter
Christopher Lee
Rochefort
Raquel Welch
Constance de Bonancieux
Geraldine Chaplin
Queen Anne of Austria

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Richard Lester
Writers: George MacDonald Fraser
Languages: English
Countries: Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America

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ERA

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52 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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WORLD

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International production across 3 countries: Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "The Musketeers Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Richard Lester, shot by David Watkin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Lalo Schifrin. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor John Victor-Smith shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Michael York and Oliver Reed and Richard Chamberlain carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "What could be better than The Three Musketeers?".

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The take

Richard Lester directs. David Watkin behind the camera. Lalo Schifrin scores. John Victor-Smith cuts. Produced in Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

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152 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2International production across 3 countries: Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America.
3Part of the "The Musketeers Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Richard Lester, shot by David Watkin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Lalo Schifrin. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor John Victor-Smith shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Michael York and Oliver Reed and Richard Chamberlain carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "What could be better than The Three Musketeers?".
9IMDB entry: tt0073012 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Released under 10 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: David Watkin
Original score: Lalo Schifrin
Editing: John Victor-Smith
Production design: Brian Eatwell
Costume design: Yvonne Blake
Makeup / hair: Susan Germaine
Stunt coordinator: Joaquín Parra
Runtime: 107 min · 1h 47m
Status: Released
Box office: $8,760,000
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: The Four Musketeers (1974)

Part of

The Musketeers Collection

The Musketeers fight the cardinal for King, Queen and France.

Also by

Richard Lester

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CinemaSerf2023-12-26
★ 7/10
Whilst it's not quite as good as last year's effort, Richard Lester has managed to reassemble the cast for another romp through Alexandre Dumas' stories of derring-do at the court of King Louis XIII (Jean-Pierre Cassel). Now following his near miss last time, Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston) has become even more fixated on exposing the Queen (Geraldine Chaplin) and her British lover Buckingham (Simon Ward) and so has commissioned "Rochefort" (Christopher Lee) and the menacing "Lady De Winter" (Faye Dunaway) to get the secrets from dressmaker "Constance" (Raquel Welch). Meantime, the loved-up "D'Artagnan" - the particularly scrawny Michael York - is also on her trail, aided by his three colleagues "Porthos" (Frank Finlay), "Aramis" (Richard Chamberlain) and "Athos" (Oliver Reed) and adventures ensue as they have to thwart the evil Cardinal's machinations and save poor "Constance" from the malevolent "Milady". It's colourful and action packed, with more from the others - especially the clearly in his element Reed who must have been swilling real vin rouge. Roy Kinnear rolls his eyes in disbelief with comic aplomb and we have quite a fun game of cricket that's far more explosive than any I've ever seen at Lords! Dunaway is great as the manipulatrix and Welch likewise as the naive young seamstress only just fitting into one of her own frocks. Heston features a little too sparingly to make much of an impact, but Christopher Lee delivers well too - his firing squad "perhaps I'll die of old age" did make me smile - as this enjoyable costume drama heads to it's rather fitting, but slightly disappointing, denouement. These are a good pair of films for fans of action comedies, and still bear watching fifty years later.

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