THE FOUR MUSKETEERS (1974)
Featuring: Oliver Reed; Richard Chamberlain; Michael York; Frank Finlay
Director: Richard Lester
Although released as a sequel one year later, it was actually shot simultaneously with The Three Musketeers as one film. Therefor, this one basically picks up where the first one left off.
D'Artagnan is now officially one of the king's musketeers. When the French army besieges the protestant rebels at La Rochelle, Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston) sends Milady Winter (Fay Dunaway) to London in order to assassinate the Duke of Buckingham (Jean-Pierre Cassel), out of fear that the latter might come to the aid of the rebels. But when Queen Anne (Geraldine Chaplin) gets wind of this, she in turn sends the four musketeers in whom she trust (still played by Reed, Chamberlain, York and Finlay) to warn her beloved Duke of the impending danger.
The top cast is again in top form which makes this follow-on just as enjoyable as the previous movie. Some years later, in 1989, Richard Lester tried to repeat the same recipe with some of the original cast members in The Return Of The Musketeers. Unfortunately, this time round he was not quite able to recreate the ambience of the original two movies. The Four Musketeers, though, also earns 3 of 5 stars from me.
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Scenes for The Four Musketeers
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