The Three Musketeers

1935
U
1h 36m

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Gascon D'Artagnan joins the Musketeers in Paris, battling Porthos, Aramis, and Athos to save France and a lady's honor from Cardinal Richelieu's machinations.Gascon D'Artagnan joins the Musketeers in Paris, battling Porthos, Aramis, and Athos to save France and a lady's honor from Cardinal Richelieu's machinations.Gascon D'Artagnan joins the Musketeers in Paris, battling Porthos, Aramis, and Athos to save France and a lady's honor from Cardinal Richelieu's machinations.

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5.8/10

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Trivia
Nigel De Brulier had already played Cardinal Richelieu in the 1921 film The Three Musketeers (1921) as well as the 1929 film The Iron Mask (1929). In addition, he also played Richelieu in the 1939 film The Man in the Iron Mask (1939).

Crazy credits
Opening credits: France - - 1625 An age of romance, adventure and brave deeds. Chateau d'Artagnan - - in Gascony - - a hundred leagues from Paris.

Connections
Referenced in Have You Got Any Castles? (1938)

Soundtracks
Song of the Musketeers
(uncredited)
Music and Lyrics by Max Steiner

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6/10

All for One and One for All

The Three Musketeers was probably RKO Studio's biggest budget item for 1935. It's a condensed version of the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas and casts Walter Abel in the lead role of D'Artagnan.

Walter Abel had a distinguished career as a fine character actor, but from this film he just not have the charisma needed to carry a whole film. Ironic that the three most obvious D'Artagnans all were not available in 1935. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. was in Great Britain, Tyrone Power was a year away from his break out picture, Lloyd's of London and Errol Flynn was just being introduced at Warner Brothers in Captain Blood. Why none of those three ever got to play D'Artagnan is a mystery, especially Flynn who did do a version of The Three Musketeers as a radio play.

The best bit of acting is from Ian Keith as DeRochefort. The novel has DeRochefort as Cardinal Richelieu's chief enforcer, but here he's a loose cannon with very much his own agenda. Paul Lukas makes a brooding Athos although the best portrayal of that role comes from Van Heflin in MGM's version in 1948.

This is a decent version of the classic and far superior to what Darryl Zanuck inflicted on the public in 1939 with the Ritz Brothers as Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.