The Four Musketeers (1975)
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79% of critics liked it
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69% of users liked it
(7,180 ratings)
This comic interpretation of Alexandre Dumas's classic adventure saga picks up where 1974's The Three Musketeers left off, as D'Artagnan (Michael York), Athos (Oliver Reed), Aramis (Richard Chamberlain), and Porthos (Frank Finlay) scuttle the plans of Lady de Winter (Faye Dunaway) to… More This comic interpretation of Alexandre Dumas's classic adventure saga picks up where 1974's The Three Musketeers left off, as D'Artagnan (Michael York), Athos (Oliver Reed), Aramis (Richard Chamberlain), and Porthos (Frank Finlay) scuttle the plans of Lady de Winter (Faye Dunaway) to remove Queen Anne (Geraldine Chaplin) from the seat of power. De Winter is determined to get revenge against the Musketeers, and when she learns that D'Artagnan is infatuated with the lovely Constance (Raquel Welch), she first tries to foil their romance by seducing D'Artagnan herself, and then by persuading Rochefort (Christopher Lee) to kidnap Constance. She then engineers the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham (Simon Ward), a close friend of D'Artagnan; when word of the Duke's death and Constance's imprisonment reaches D'Artagnan and his comrades, the foursome ride off to rescue the fair lady and see that justice is done against de Winter. The Four Musketeers was filmed concurrently with The Three Musketeers; it was originally intended to be one film, but when director Richard Lester realized the movie would be over three and a half hours long, the decision was made to release it as two separate features instead. This led to lawsuits filed by several of the stars, claiming that they were hired under false pretenses and entitled to be paid for making two films rather than one. The actors won their case, but their settlement was significantly less than the salary they hoped to receive. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Richard Lester
- Written By
- George MacDonald Fraser
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Feb 26, 1975 Wide
- On DVD
- Feb 13, 2001
- Studio
- Live Home Video
Critic Reviews
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Richard T. Jameson, Parallax View
... one of the most harrowing and beautiful climaxes I've witnessed in films.
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Gregory Weinkauf, ÜberCiné
If only these sequels could have kept going...
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Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com
Smoothly entertaining take on the beloved old classic.
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Steve Crum, Kansas City Kansan
Grand follow-up is almost as fun as the first
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Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
The Four Musketeers is far more subversive and contains more pointed social satire than its predecessor.
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Cast
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Oliver Reed
as Athos
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Raquel Welch
as Constance
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Richard Chamberlain
as Aramis
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Michael York
as D'Artagnan
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Frank Finlay
as Porthos
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Christopher Lee
as Rochefort
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Jean-Pierre Cassel
as Louis XIII
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Geraldine Chaplin
as Queen Anne
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Charlton Heston
as Cardinal Richelieu
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Roy Kinnear
as Planchet
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Nicole Calfan
as Kitty
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Faye Dunaway
as Lady de Winter
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Simon Ward
as Duke of Buckingham
- Sybil Danning
- Michael Gothard
