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Joss Ackland. D'Artagnan's Father (archive footage) (uncredited) Gretchen Franklin. D'Artagnan's Mother (archive footage) (uncredited) Richard Briers. Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited) John Bluthal. English Officer/Innkeeper and other roles (voice) (uncredited) Is "The Four Musketeers" available to stream on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, or ...
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The Four Musketeers. George MacDonald Fraser. Novel: Alejandro Dumas. D'Artagnan has become a Musketeer. Protestants hold La Rochelle, and the Queen loves Buckingham, who'll soon send ships to support the rebels. Richelieu enlists Rochefort to kidnap Constance, the Queen's go-between and D'Artagnan's love. The Cardinal uses the wily, amoral ...
The Four Musketeers is the flip side of the coin and, with the stakes suddenly higher, it contrasts the comic surrealism and joie de vivre of The Three Musketeers with the harsh realities of taking up the sword and fighting for a king and country enthralled to political manipulation and sectarian nonsense.
The Four Musketeers is certainly a worthy follow-up to 1973's The Three Musketeers. It's also noticeably different from the original in some important respects, with a darker, more melancholy tone, and more tragedy and human drama, making it more than a simple repeat of the first film.
The Four Musketeers is the flip side of the coin and, with the stakes suddenly higher, it contrasts the comic surrealism and joie de vivre of The Three Musketeers with the harsh realities of taking up the sword and fighting for a king and country enthralled to political manipulation and sectarian nonsense.
The Four Musketeers (tennis), French tennis players who dominated the game in the second half of the 1920s and early 1930s. The Four Musketeers (1934 film), a German drama directed by Heinz Paul unrelated to the Dumas novels. The Four Musketeers (1936 film), an Italian adventure film directed by Carlo Campogalliani. The Four Musketeers (1963 ...
Richard Lester's "The Four Musketeers" was filmed at the same time as his 1974 hit (which was, uh . . . "The Three Musketeers") and continues the same story with the same combination of impenetrable plotting and nonstop swashbuckling. I liked the first film better than the second, but in any event, half of this pair is enough. It's too much of the same material, spun out into a wearying series of sword fights and romances.
