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The Four Musketeers (film)
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| The Four Musketeers | |
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 1975 movie poster |
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| Directed by | Richard Lester |
| Produced by | Alexander Salkind Pierre Spengler |
| Written by | George MacDonald Fraser based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, père |
| Starring | Oliver Reed Charlton Heston Raquel Welch Faye Dunaway Richard Chamberlain Frank Finlay Michael York Christopher Lee |
| Music by | Michel Legrand Lalo Schifrin |
| Cinematography | David Watkin Paul Wilson |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) |  February 26, 1975 September 1, 1975 |
| Running time | 108 min. |
| Country | UK / Panama / Spain |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | The Three Musketeers |
| Followed by | The Return of the Musketeers |
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| IMDb profile | |
The Four Musketeers is the title of a 1974 Richard Lester film, which follows upon his film of the previous year, The Three Musketeers, and covers the second half of Dumas' novel. See The Three Musketeers. Fifteen years later, the cast and crew returned to film The Return of the Musketeers, loosely based on Dumas' Twenty Years After.
During post production on The Three Musketeers, the producers realized that there was enough footage for two films and created The Four Musketeers. Most of the actors were incensed that their work on the long shoot was used to make an entirely separate film. All SAG actors' contracts now have what is known as the "Salkind clause", which stipulates how many films are being made. Charlton Heston — who was handsomely paid for what was essentially a cameo role — was the only actor who did not feel cheated.
This is much the darker of the two films. There is less of the lighthearted horseplay seen in the first film. Constance is murdered by Milady, Rochefort is gravely wounded by d'Artagnan, and Milady is executed by a headsman as the Musketeers look on. We also see the backstory of the tangled relationship between Athos and Milady, and an extended prison sequence in which Milady uses her feminine wiles to turn the Duke of Buckingham's Puritan manservant into an assassin. In the end d'Artagnan triumphs over Richelieu's plotting and becomes an officer.
- Michael York as d'Artagnan
- Oliver Reed as Athos
- Frank Finlay as Porthos
- Richard Chamberlain as Aramis
- Jean-Pierre Cassel as (King) Louis XIII
- Geraldine Chaplin as (Queen) Anne of Austria
- Charlton Heston as Cardinal Richelieu
- Faye Dunaway as Milady de Winter
- Christopher Lee as the Count De Rochefort
- Raquel Welch as Constance Bonacieux
- Roy Kinnear as Planchet
- See The Three Musketeers (film) for a list of other Musketeer adaptations.
