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The Fifth Musketeer [Region 2] [Dutch import]

3.1 out of 5 stars 8 customer reviews

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  • Actors: Sylvia Kristel, Ursula Andress, Beau Bridges, Cornel Wilde, Ian McShane
  • Directors: Ken Annakin
  • Format: Import, PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Studio: Bakker
  • Run Time: 115 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0011IQ7WK
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 88,167 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

Product Description

REGION 2 DVD - DUTCH IMPORT - OFFICIAL RELEASE - HARD TO FIND MOVIE.

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Before I bought this DVD, I read the reviews here and thought it might be a poor movie. But not so. It's immense fun - not by any means perfect, and often the sword fighting and general mayhem scenes that occur now and then are silly - very poorly choreographed. We don't see any proper duelling but the movie was made a good time ago and these days, 21st century, we expect the swashbuckling to be skillful.

The first scene is someone called Philippe being taught how to duel by.....Athos. Who else is there is a bit confusing, and then suddenly there's an attack by another lot of guys and the mayhem that follows for a while is very messy and boring. That didn't make me feel happy - I was dreading a poor movie now. Worse, the guys who seem to be the heroes are all captured.

Next we find we are with some attractive coquette who is Ursula Andress (looking very fetching) and her lover who is it seems The King though he's not at all a nice guy but then Dumas didn't write him as nice either.

Next, we discover the "heroes" are slung into the Bastille and Philippe is forced to war an iron mask.... Now we get it. This is a very loose adaptation of the final Musketeer book, the superb Man in the Iron Mask.

Now we discover King Louis (XIV) is waiting for his Spanish bride to reach Paris, and he has devised a lunatic plot involving his twin Philippe .... fortunately for Philippe and us, the plot totally misfires with comical results. The bride falls for Philippe but takes a huge dislike to nasty Louis and sets off back home to Spain, which infuriates the King though I doubt his voluptuous mistress objects!

And so it goes on - entertaining fun.
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fully uncut version of an entertainingand swashbuckling movie.good transfer.movie is well photographed.although perhaps not as accomplished as the 'the three musketeers'(1973),or 'the four musketeers'(1974)it is still a good companion piece to those films in my opinion.I would reccommend this version if you enjoyed the other two movies.
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Poor Ian McShane - the best ever Heathcliff (BBC 1960s) and Judas Iscariot ("Jesus of Nazareth") reduced by 1979 to giving the only decent performance in this extraordinary mongrel of a film. As bizarre & characterless a quartet of musketeers as you can imagine, two porn stars playing important characters but seemingly only there to flaunt their bodies for no apparent reason, dear old Rex Harrison doing his best but clearly wondering what the hell he's doing there, the legendary Jack Cardiff clearly having an off day as cinematographer and a screenplay that takes the basic idea of "The Man in the Iron Mask" then hacks the whole story to pieces.

There's never been a screen version of Dumas' final Muketeers novel (except the presumedly lost 1968 BBC serialisation starring Roger Livesey & Edwin Richfield ) that is faithful to the book, and this is no exception. The period detail's good, but otherwise the whole thing looks like one of those B-movie swashbucklers from the Fifties.

One day someone will make a decent version of this magnificent story. Until then you'd be advised to stick with stylish Louis Hayward version. Or read the book.
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Get the Dutch import as it's the only complete version. This isn't a strong version of "The Man in the Iron Mask" but could have been with a better director. However, it's still worth watching and enjoying but, again, do not get a British or American version as all the ones I've seen make too many cuts. This one is worth searching out.
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