The Four Musketeers (1974)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

Richard Lester

Escritores:

George MacDonald Fraser (screenplay)
Alexandre Dumas père (novel)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

26 febrero 1975 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Aventura | Historia | Romance

Frase comercial:

One for all and all for one! (And every man for himself.)

Plot:

The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.

Plot Keywords:

D'artagnan | Queen | Musketeer | Love | Cardinal Richelieu

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

"By my order, and for the good of the state, the bearer has done what has been done."

Reparto

Oliver Reed	...	Athos
Raquel Welch	...	Constance de Bonancieux
Richard Chamberlain	...	Aramis
Michael York	...	D'Artagnan
Frank Finlay	...	Porthos
Christopher Lee	...	Rochefort
Geraldine Chaplin	...	Queen Anne of Austria
Faye Dunaway	...	Milady
Roy Kinnear	...	Planchet
Michael Gothard	...	Felton
Nicole Calfan	...	Maid Kitty
Ángel del Pozo	...	Jussac (as Angel Del Pozo)
Eduardo Fajardo
Simon Ward	...	Duke of Buckingham
Jean-Pierre Cassel	...	Louis XIII (as Jean Pierre Cassel)

También conocida como:

Los cuatro mosqueteros (Spain)
The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (USA)
The Four Musketeers: The Revenge of Milady (UK) (complete title)
The Return of the Three Musketeers (UK) (video title)
The Revenge of Milady

Duración:

108 min

País:

Spain | Panama

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Singapore:PG | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | UK:A (original rating)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Estudios Cinematografica Roma S.A., Madrid, Spain

Compañía:

Este Films

Trivialidades:

Filmed at the same time as The Three Musketeers (1973).

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: In the swordfight on the frozen river, the lumps of broken ice float high in the water like Styrofoam. Real ice would be 9/10 below the surface and water would slosh over the lumps as they were moved around.

Citas:

Cardinal Richelieu: [Richelieu realizes that D'Artagnan is in possession of the letter he wrote giving Milady de Winter permission to kill Buckingham, d'Artagnan and Constance; reading] "By my order and for the good of the state, the bearer has done what has been done." Hm. One should be careful what one writes
[he tears up the note]
Cardinal Richelieu: and to whom one gives it. I must bear that in mind.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman (2006) (TV)

"By my order, and for the good of the state, the bearer has done what has been done."

Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan are back; or more precisely, are still here; for the second half of the Dumas novel. As I'm sure most fans know, this was meant to be part of the complete Three Musketeers, before the Salkinds split it into two films. This led to much litigation and the creation of the "Salkind clause" in movie contracts.

Spoliers-The film takes up where the first part left off; D'Artagnan and the Musketeers have saved the Queen from embarassment and confounded the evil Cardinal Richelieu. D'Artagnan is now a full fledged Musketeer (although, in the novel, he was still just a guardsman).

Now the Cardinal hatches a new plot to persuade the Duke of Buckingham from joining the protestant Huguenot rebels at the city of La Rochelle. Milady is sent to persuade him to change his mind or kill him. Although Buckingham imprisons her, he underestimates the power of her charms. The Duke meets a tragic end and Milady returns to France to seek her revenge on D'Artagnan.

Meanwhile, D'Artagnan rescues his mistress Constance and places her in safekeeping. He learns the true identity of Milady and the mystery behind Athos' melancholy.

The Musketeers are sent to fight at La Rochelle and uncover the Cardinal's plot to kill Buckingham. Although the other Musketeers care little, D'Artagnan owes a debt to Buckingham and tries to stop the plot.

D'Artagnan pays a terrible price for his efforts, but emerges as a lieutenant of the Musketeers. He has taken his place as the leader of the group, but will find little solace in his promotion.

As with the first film, the performances are spot on. Everything is the same, as it was filmed at the same time. It is best viewed as a whole with the Three Musketeers.