The Musketeers Collection

Michael York

Oliver Reed

Richard Chamberlain

Frank Finlay

Faye Dunaway

Christopher Lee

Raquel Welch

Geraldine Chaplin

Charlton Heston

Roy Kinnear

Simon Ward

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Michael Gothard

Nicole Calfan

Ángel del Pozo

Eduardo Fajardo

Sybil Danning

Gitty Djamal

Jack Watson

Richard Adams

Bob Todd

Tom Buchanan

Norman Chappell

Leon Greene

Lucy Tiller

Tyrone Cassidy

Oliver MacGreevy

Joss Ackland

Gretchen Franklin

Richard Briers

John Bluthal

Richard Lester

Alexandre Dumas

George MacDonald Fraser

Alexander Salkind

Ilya Salkind

Michael Salkind

Lalo Schifrin

David Watkin

John Victor-Smith

Brian Eatwell

Leslie Dilley

Yvonne Blake

Cristóbal Criado

Susan Germaine

Kaye Pownall

Charlene Roberson

Carmen Sánchez

Francisco Bellot

Enrique Esteban

Pierre Spengler

Patricio Beltran Aparicio

Clive Reed

Dusty Symonds

Alain Walker

Eddie Fowlie

John Lanzer

Rafael Ablanque

José María Alarcón

Emilio Ardura

Don Challis

Roy Charman

Gerry Humphreys

Simon Kaye

Dan Sharp

Pablo Pérez

Doug Ferris

Joaquín Parra

Ronald Anscombe

Antonio Colmenar

Enrique de la Jara

Alejandro Diges

Frank Elliott

Peter Ewens

Federico Gómez Grau

Luis Peña

Manuela Iglesias

Ron Talsky

Jean Zay

Marina Rodríguez

Peter Boyle

Peter Holt

Peter Hollywood

Ann Skinner

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The Four Musketeers

Film Trust S.A.

Este Films

Alexander, Michael and Ilya Salkind Productions

20th Century Fox

Twickenham Film Studios

Spain

United Kingdom

United States of America

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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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The Four Musketeers (1974) Original Trailer [HD]