The Three Musketeers
Richard Lester’s spirited adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s timeless novel immediately distinguished itself from previous film versions with its irresistible lightheartedness. It follows the brash, young wannabe musketeer d’Artagnan (Michael York) as he travels from the French countryside to Paris and befriends Athos (Oliver Reed), Porthos (Frank Finlay), and Aramis (Richard Chamberlain), famed swordsmen whom he must help to stop the conniving Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston) and his plot to undermine the king. The Three Musketeers sweeps viewers away with its exquisite sets and costumes, chivalric romance, and breathless duels punctuated by the ingenious physical comedy that was Lester’s trademark.
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Cast
- Michael York
- D’Artagnan
- Oliver Reed
- Athos
- Raquel Welch
- Constance de Bonacieux
- Richard Chamberlain
- Aramis
- Frank Finlay
- Porthos
- Christopher Lee
- Rochefort
- Geraldine Chaplin
- Queen Anna of Austria
- Jean-Pierre Cassel
- Louis XIII
- Charlton Heston
- Cardinal Richelieu
- Faye Dunaway
- Milady
- Simon Ward
- Duke of Buckingham
- Spike Milligan
- Monsieur Bonacieux
- Roy Kinnear
- Planchet
- George Wilson
- Treville
- Michael Gothard
- Felton
- Sybil Danning
- Eugenie
- Gitty Djamal
- Beatrice
Credits
- Director
- Richard Lester
- Producer
- Ilya Salkind
- Executive producer
- Alexander Salkind
- Executive producer
- Michael Salkind
- Executive in charge of production
- Pierre Spengler
- Associate producer
- Wolfdieter von Stein
- Screenplay by
- George MacDonald Fraser
- Based on the novel by
- Alexandre Dumas
- Music by
- Michel Legrand
- Director of photography
- David Watkin
- Film editor
- John Victor Smith
- Fight director
- William Hobbs
- Costume designer
- Yvonne Blake
- Production designer
- Brian Eatwell
- Art director
- Les Dilley
- Art director
- Fernando Gonzalez
- Production supervisor
- Enrique Esteban
- General production manager
- Francisco Bellot
- Miss Raquel Welch’s costumes
- Ron Talsky
- Costume supervisor
- Jean Zay
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