The Three Musketeers (1973 film)
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The Three Musketeers is a 1973 film based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. Directed by Richard Lester, the film was originally intended to run for three hours, but the film was split in two (resulting in 1974's The Four Musketeers). In 1989, the cast and crew returned to film The Return of the Musketeers, loosely based on Dumas' Twenty Years After.
The film adheres strongly to the novel, but it also injects a fair amount of humour, and the film itself has garnered much critical praise, despite its poor box-office performance.
Cast
- Michael York as d'Artagnan
- Oliver Reed as Athos
- Frank Finlay as Porthos
- Richard Chamberlain as Aramis
- Jean-Pierre Cassel as Louis XIII
- Geraldine Chaplin as Anne of Austria
- Charlton Heston as Richelieu
- Faye Dunaway as Milady de Winter
- Christopher Lee as the Count De Rochefort
- Raquel Welch as Constance Bonacieux
- Spike Milligan as M. Bonancieux
See also
- See The Three Musketeers (film) for a list of other Musketeer adaptions.
External links
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