Rent The Four Musketeers (1974)
3.5 of 5 from 100 ratings
1h 43min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
D'Artagnan (Michael York) has become a Musketeer. Protestants hold La Rochelle, and the Queen loves Buckingham, who'll soon send ships to support the rebels. Richelieu enlists Rochefort (Christopher Lee) to kidnap Constance (Raquel Welch), the Queen's go-between and D'Artagnan's love. The Cardinal (Charlton Heston) uses the wily, amoral Milady de Winter to distract D'Artagnan. But soon, she is D'Artagnan's sworn enemy and she has an unfortunate history with Athos (Oliver Reed) as well. Milady goes to England to dispatch Buckingham; the Musketeers fight the rebels. Milady, with Rochefort's help, then turns to her personal agenda. Can D'Artagnan save Constance, defeat Rochefort, slip de Winter's ire, and stay free of the Cardinal? All for one, one for all. - Actors:
- Michael York, Raquel Welch, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Christopher Lee, Geraldine Chaplin, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Faye Dunaway, Roy Kinnear, Michael Gothard, Nicole Calfan, Ángel del Pozo, Eduardo Fajardo, Simon Ward, Charlton Heston, Sybil Danning, Gitty Djamal, Jack Watson, Bob Todd
- Directors:
- Richard Lester
- Producers:
- Alexander Salkind, Michael Salkind, Ilya Salkind
- Voiced By:
- Richard Briers
- Writers:
- George MacDonald Fraser, Alexandre Dumas père
- Others:
- Yvonne Blake, Ron Talsky
- Aka:
- The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge
- Studio:
- Momentum Pictures
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Collections:
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- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 03/10/2011
- Run Time:
- 107 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
- Subtitles:
- None
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.77:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 08/05/2023
- Run Time:
- 107 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 0 (All)
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
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Reviews (2) of The Four Musketeers
Swashbuckling Entertainment At It's Best - The Four Musketeers review by GI
The sequel to The Three Musketeers released a year later. Indeed the two films were made to be one film and the splitting into two resulted in the actors suing the producers for more money. That aside this is as much fun as the first film and it rattles along as a fun filled roustabout swashbuckler with some beautiful cinematography and more ambitious scenes including the siege of La Rochelle. D'Artagnan (Michael York), now a fully fledged musketeer, attempts to foil the plot of the evil Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston) to murder the Prime Minister of England (Simon Ward). His fellow musketeers are all along to help (Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay & Richard Chamberlain) and there's great action sword fights, battle scenes and that fantastic visualisation of the 17th Century that director Richard Lester created in the earlier film. Faye Dunaway has a bigger role here as the temptress 'Milady' and her and Reed's Athos are given a back story told in flashback. A thoroughly enjoyable, fun filled slice of family entertainment that never ages and one of those sequels that is as good as the original and it's worth watching both films back to back as the segue perfectly.
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Growing a Spine - The Four Musketeers review by griggs
Same cast, wildly different film this time round — though Richard Lester still directs, so the energy never really drops. Three Musketeers was all swagger and pratfalls; Four Musketeers grows a conscience halfway through, and somehow it works.
I was braced for more farce and got something closer to a thriller with a rapier through it. Oliver Reed and Michael York still get their punchlines in, only now they carry more weight behind them. The stakes feel real this time, and that shift changes everything around it, from the comedy to the swordplay.
The trade-off is a middle stretch that sags under the new seriousness, less zip than the first outing had. Still, it earns that spine, and it's the better film for having one.
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