Rent The Four Musketeers (1974)

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.