The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers: Two Films by Richard Lester
Edition no. 1263
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Alexandre Dumas’s immortal tale of adventure and camaraderie received perhaps the finest of its numerous screen adaptations with this two-part swashbuckling spectacular from A Hard Day’s Night director Richard Lester. Featuring Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, and Richard Chamberlain as the swaggering swordsmen, who thrust and parry their way through courtly intrigue in seventeenth-century France, The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers are also graced with an all-star supporting cast that includes Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Geraldine Chaplin, and Charlton Heston. Lester’s exuberant epic breathes new life into an oft-told classic through its boisterous slapstick invention, its meticulous attention to period detail, and a sense of pure, unbridled bravado that is thrilling to behold.
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Supplements
- Two for One, a new documentary by critic David Cairns
- The Saga of the Musketeers (2002), a two-part documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew members
- The Making of “The Three Musketeers,” a 1973 featurette with behind-the-scenes footage of director Richard Lester
- Trailer for The Three Musketeers
- Trailer for The Four Musketeers
- An essay by film critic Stephanie Zacharek