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The Three Musketeers (Digitally Restored) [Blu-ray]

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4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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  • Language: English
  • Region: Region B/2 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 3 Oct 2011
  • Run Time: 103 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00525QKNO
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 71,271 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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From Director Richard Lester and featuring a stellar cast including Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch and Christopher Lee, The Three Musketeers is a faithful adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel with belly laughs a-plenty and endless swashbuckling. In 17th Century Paris, young, naïve and energetic D’Artagnan leaves home to seek his fortune as a swordsman. He soon makes friends with the three musketeers: world-weary Athos, comically arrogant Porthos and chivalric Aramis. Their enemy is aristocratic schemer Cardinal Richelieu, who plots to prove the infidelity of the Queen to King Louis XIII to increase his own power.


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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Swashbuckling Masterpiece - Part 1 1 Mar 2003
Format:DVD
I first saw this movie on a Saturday afternoon with my three best friends, thirty years ago. We all wanted to be d'Artagnan, but I guess the closest I came was Planchet...

I have no words to convey how much I love this movie and the follow-up, The Four Musketeers. Filmed back-to-back, they are perhaps the last great big-budget, super-cast adventure movies of the 20th Century. They portray 17th-Century France (and England) in terms far more realistic than Gene Kelly's 1948 production, if not entirely true to Dumas's novel.

Michael York is excellent as the young d'Artagnan, newly arrived in Paris with the expectation of following in his father's footsteps as a King's Musketeer. Along the way he encounters the villainous Comte de Rochefort (Christopher Lee), the musketeers Athos (Oliver Reed in possibly his best role), Porthos (the excellent Frank Finlay) and Aramis (a superbly tongue-in-cheek Richard Chamberlain) and most notably the manipulative Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston) and finds himself emroiled in a plot to disgrace the Queen of France involving the Cardinal's agent, Milady de Winter (Faye Dunaway).

With the assistance of his friends and allies, including his loyal and long-suffering servant, Planchet (the late Roy Kinnear) and mistress Constance (Raquel Welch in a perceptive comedic role), d'Artagnan embarks on a mission to retrieve the diamond studs from the Queen's lover, the Duke of Buckingham, and save the Queen's honour and that of France.

The resulting story by George MacDonald Fraser is, quite simply, a rollicking adventure (never thought I'd use that expression) that no-one should miss.

Latterday remakes such as Disney's Kiefer Sutherland - Charlie Sheen effort cannot hold so much as a match, let alone a candle to this epic.

I've waited since the advent of DVD for these movies to appear - extra features or not, they should be part of every collection.

Buy the movies, then read the book - I guarantee you'll be hooked...
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic telling of a classic story. 27 July 2003
Format:DVD
Everyone knows the classic story, and it is told with a joy and verve in this film. The times are faithfully recreated, it's obvious the makers had a real passion for the era. So many little period details are clustered on screen you have to watch it many times to get the full enjoyment. The film feels like chaos, background action mixing with foreground, the characters on the fringes getting some classic lines as they watch the musketeers and cardinal's guards demolishing the scenery. The fight scenes are a world away from the clean stylised kung fu based scrapping so prevalent nowadays. Instead the duelling often degenerates into brawls, feeling much more real and human than anything before or since (except possibly for THAT scene in Bridget Jones!).

The stars of the film evoke their characters perfectly, from Faye Dunaway as the duplicitous Milady to Oliver Reed as the tortured Athos (a signature role for Reed). Michael York is perhaps a little old for D'Artangnan, but he carries the passionate naivety wonderfully.

The film is a fabulous blend of comedy and darkness, the two complementing and highlighting each other. It is a perfect adventure film and you should buy it now!

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Three Musketeers, a short review. 6 Nov 2011
By chas
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
This version of The Three Musketeers is still probably the best of the bunch, that includes the dismal new remake,which is more steampunk than Alexandre Dumas. The Richard Lester directed movie is quite faithfull to the Dumas classic. With a great cast the humour and adventure move along with brilliant pace. The production design and costumes are outstanding, as is the excellent score by Michel Legrand, all in all great fun. The Digtally restored Blu-Ray Trasfer is very good, some outdoor scenes seem a little on the bright side, but this is soon adjusted.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars three musketeers
This was good quality and an excellent story; a classic film that has been modernised with bluray technology. Oliver Reed is excellent.
Published 3 months ago by Book Fan
4.0 out of 5 stars The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers is a great movie, based on the great novel! A great and sometimes funny adventure with Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'artagnan!
Published 3 months ago by Jarand Barkved
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Upgrade (and worked on my Region A player)
An all time favorite of mine ... more than enough reviews of the film
elswhere without my 2 cents. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Michael Burton
5.0 out of 5 stars Blu-Ray?
A wonderful film, as was the sequel. I believe that they were actually one movie edited to make two but I could be wrong. Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2010 by B. J. du Cille
4.0 out of 5 stars A shoddy release which fails to take the shine off a great film
I can't help wondering how much of an influence this film had on the Monty Python team, as it has a similar look (warts and all portrayal of history in exquisite period detail),... Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2010 by K. O'Leary
5.0 out of 5 stars Great swash-buckling fun from start to finish
I have recently read 'The Three Musketeers' by M.Dumas and have to say that this film (and the rather cheeky 'Four Musketeers') capture the spirit of the book amazingly well. Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2008 by Meerkat
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful film - shame about the version!
This film (and the Four Musketeers) have to be amoungst my favourite films. Richard Lester's direction is wonderful, it looks ravishing, and the performances are excellent, with... Read more
Published on 18 April 2007 by M. Bunter
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