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Release Date:
29 March 1974 (USA)
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. . . One for All and All for Fun!
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A young swordsman comes to Paris and faces villains, romance, adventure and intrigue with three Musketeer friends. full summary | add synopsis
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Won Golden Globe.
Another 2 wins
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7 nominations
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(5 articles)
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The best Three Musketeers ever.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Oliver Reed | ... | Athos |
 | Raquel Welch | ... | Constance de Bonacieux |
 | Richard Chamberlain | ... | Aramis |
 | Michael York | ... | D'Artagnan |
 | Frank Finlay | ... | Porthos |
 | Christopher Lee | ... | Rochefort |
| Geraldine Chaplin | ... | Anna of Austria |
 | Jean-Pierre Cassel | ... | Louis XIII (as Jean Pierre Cassel) |
| Spike Milligan | ... | M. Bonacieux |
| Roy Kinnear | ... | Planchet |
| Georges Wilson | ... | Treville |
| Simon Ward | ... | Duke of Buckingham |
 | Faye Dunaway | ... | Milady / Lady de Winter |
 | Charlton Heston | ... | Cardinal Richelieu |
 | Joss Ackland | ... | D'Artagnan's Father |
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The Three Musketeers: The Queen's Diamonds (UK) (complete title) (USA)
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105 min
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Colour (Technicolor)
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Australia:PG |
Singapore:PG |
Iceland:L |
Netherlands:12 |
South Korea:All |
Australia:G |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:16 (1975) |
Sweden:11 |
UK:U |
USA:PG
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Continuity: When Athos is hitting a Guard with a stick in the climatic scene at the palace, in one shot his sling falls off, but in the very next shot it is back on again.
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D'Artagnan:
Well, if I am to be killed; at least it will be by a Musketeer.
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Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Christopher Lee/Meat Loaf (#3.15)" (1978)
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This film, and its sequel (filmed concurrently) is by far the best movie version of the Dumas novel ever produced. The cast is excellent. The sets and costumes are marvelous. The swordplay (and there is much) is possible some of the most realistic ever filmed. And it's the only Musketeer movie I am aware of in which the Musketeers actually use muskets. Authenticity seems to have been very important to the producers, as well as staying true to the novel.
Sadly a film like this wouldn't be made these days. First off the fighting would be "punched-up" with a lot of wire work. And of course Hollywood would change the story to eliminate much of the "sleeping around" characters do (today's movie heroes in this type of movie aren't usually sexually active). They would also provide some creative story editing so that a certain character who dies in the novel would survive so as to supply the requisite happy ending. Fortunately for us this version does not suffer that kind of revisionism.
If you're a fan of Dumas or just looking for a fun film with lots of realistic sword fighting then you won't want to miss this.