The Three Musketeers (1974) - Trailer

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. MPAA Rating: PG 1974 Canal IMAGE INTERNATIONAL

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[johnhamilton08]

Hey a movie with Oliver Reed where he isn't the villain.

[Seropo56]

To Ancient History Buff: If you want Hollywood to follow the novel or for that matter for Hollywood to even follow the actual history, you would not be seeing very many movies. I do understand your objection. I walked out of Troy when Achilles (Brad Pitt) climbed out of the Trojan Horse.

[AncientHistoryBuff]

@broncolady4ever, i disagree. it's onething to take minor liberties with a novel (ie. Ben-Hur, Gone With The Wind, etc), but the asshole who wrote the script obviously decided to make D'Artagnan a Don Juan by having him sleep with Madame Bonancieux, Milday and Kitty, niether of which occurs in the novel and took other egregious liberties. In short, he ruined one of the greatest novels of all time. i think that so far, the Disney version is the best. that's just my opinion.

[broncolady4ever]

TCM showed this film last night (first time I had seen it in YEARS, even though I have it on DVD; I enjoyed it so much, I re-watched it again tonight on DVD! The cast was BRILLIANT, IMO; Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain and Michael York were PERFECT as the musketeers and D'Artagnan, this was Raquel Welch's best work EVER, and Faye Dunaway, Christopher Lee, Charlton Heston, Simon Ward and several others rounded out a perfect cast, which made for a HIGHLY entertaining film!

[broncolady4ever]

@AncientHistoryBuff I must respectfully disagree; IMO, this was the BEST version of "The Three Musketeers"! You have to realize that this film was directed by Richard Lester (who also directed "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!"), who was known for his comedic touches! Yes, he took LIBERAL artistic license with the book, but the results were HIGHLY entertaining! There was only ONE sequel, "The Four Musketeers", which was made at the same time as this one; it was good, but not AS good as this

[AncientHistoryBuff]

horrible movie, and the two sequels were even worse. too many liberties with the original novel, including making D'Artagnan a Don Juan by him having sex with not one, not two, but THREE women, whereas he doesn't have sex with anyone in the original novel, Rochefort is NOT Milady's lover in the novel, Constance is NOT accident-prone, Milady and Constance do NOT fight, Constance is NOT strangled by Milady, Rochefort does NOT die in Les Trois Mousquetaires (whereas he's alive in "Return..."), etc.