- Actors: Michael York, Raquel Welch, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay
- Directors: Richard Lester
- Writers: Alexandre Dumas père, George MacDonald Fraser
- Producers: Alexander Salkind, Ilya Salkind, Michael Salkind, Pierre Spengler, Wolfdieter von Stein
- Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
- Number of discs: 2
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- Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
- Release Date: Feb 4 2003
- Run Time: 214 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00006LPC5
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #20,884 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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Richard Lester's 1975 sequel to his romping Three Musketeers--released the year before--reunites his swashbuckling cast for a decidedly less happy and more somber experience. This time, D'Artagnan (Michael York) and his Musketeer mentors (Richard Chamberlain, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay) have a tougher fight against their old enemies, and the adventure is not without its casualties. But the film is highly entertaining, filled with that same loony air that makes most films by Lester (How I Won the War, A Hard Day's Night, Help!) so much fun. The actors are with him every step of the way: Reed, Chamberlain, Finlay, and York are a heroic version of the Marx brothers, Raquel Welch was never better, and Charlton Heston clearly enjoys playing the evil Cardinal Richelieu. The DVD release has a full-screen presentation, filmographies, and credits for cast and crew. --Tom Keogh
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Richard Lester's Three Musketeers
May 24 2012
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
If this is not the best film adaptation of one of the world's great stories, it's hard to imagine what could be better. Richard Lester is faithful to the story, both in narrative and feel. This is two full movies in one, a fact that apparently got the director in trouble, and the second is darker in feel than the first, exactly as with Dumas's novel. Some of the most swashbuckling men available play the musketeers, and who wouldn't love Charlton Heston as Cardinal Richelieu or Raquel Welch as Mme Bonacieux? The visual feel and handling of action is marvellous - while the swordplay is great, d'Artagnan and friends are just as likely to drop their opponents with a kick to the crotch, wet laundry or a winebottle. Forget Batman and see some real superheroes.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
NEW LIONSGATE SET HAS THE EXACT SAME DISC CONTENT AS THE ANCHOR BAY SET (BUT CHEAPER AND IN A STURDIER CASE)
Jun 3 2010
Format:DVD
Yes, rejoice one and all, for this new Lionsgate edition of, The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers have the EXACT same disc content as the Anchor Bay collection (except for a duller silk screen on the discs, light grey with etched writing) same menus, same extras (the new making of documentary actually says, Anchor Bay presents) but in a two disc plastic case (the size of a single disc case) with no chapter card (where as I believe the Anchor Bay set had the chapter lists inside the cardboard, flip open style case, with the plastic disc holders that tended to make you almost brake the discs trying to unlock them) but who ever uses the chapter search cards anyway.
So this is the set to get if you're looking to purchase these movies.
Hope this helps :)
So this is the set to get if you're looking to purchase these movies.
Hope this helps :)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Incomplete Musketeers
Sep 15 2003
Format:DVD
This is the best version of Dumas' "The Three Musketeers", not only by virtue of the cast and script -- it also, despite the heavy doses of slapstick, is the most faithful to the novel. At the time it was a daring move to have one long movie released as two. In retrospect, it was a bad idea, since the movies should be seen as a whole. Seen as two, they make up a slapstick ("The Three Musketeers") and a dark drama ("The Four Musketeers"). Seen together, the two blend well as one.
Richard Lester, who is an interesting if not always good director, does a superb job here. He handles the slapstick well, and he and the writer Geo. MacDonal Fraser (yes, the "Flashman" guy) do a great service by not only making each sword-fight scene interesting, but keeping them individual (there's a sword-fight on the ice in "The Four Musketeers" that has to be seen to be believed).
In 1989, fifteen years after these movies, the same cast, director and writer came together again for an abbreviated, single-film version of "Twenty Years After" called "Return of the Musketeers" (it's too bad Roy Kinnear and Oliver Reed are gone so they can't do "The Man in the Iron Mask"!). This film is not included, but it's a small loss. It's interesting to devotees of the original movies, but not necessary viewing for everyone.
The cast of "The Complete Musketeers" is awesome. Michael York, years before he was Basil Exposition, was a the promising young actor of the time. The three musketeers (Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain and Frank Finlay) are wonderful (although one may carp about Finlay's Porthos). And though it was the movie that proves she could act, Raquel Welch, the reigning sex goddess of the day, also has her more prominent assets on display in low-cut bodices. Christopher Lee, who has recently added "Star Wars","Lord of the Rings" and Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast" to his credits, here makes a threatening Rochefort. Charlton Heston, Faye Dunaway and the rest are uniformly excellent. This is one of the best movie treats of the 1970s.
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Published on May 16 2010 by E. A Solinas
ALMOST PERFECT
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Easily the Best Version but what about the Region!
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Published on Jan 28 2004 by Dean V Maynard
A Swashbuckling 2 DVD Set!!! Awesome!!! 5 Stars!!!
This is the ultimate collection of these two classic movies!!! Two Thumbs Up!!! Anchor Bay does another quality job with this "Complete Musketeers" 2 DVD set!!! Read more
Published on Dec 28 2003 by Jason P. Pumphrey
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Published on Dec 23 2003 by parabolak
The Best Musketeers Ever!
If you're young and you've only seen Disney's Hollywood schlock version of this swashbuckling classic, you still haven't seen the real Musketeers. Read more
Published on Aug 31 2003 by Timothy Dougal
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Published on July 12 2003 by WTDK
A More Somber Conclusion...
Not nearly as much fun as the first film, The Three Musketeers, this conclusion to the story of D'Artagnon, Athos, Porthos & Aramis and their efforts to thwart the machinations of... Read more
Published on Jun 30 2003 by Archmaker
Great movies-great DVD
"The Three Musketeers" is truly one of the best books ever written, and these two films are truly the best Dumas adaptations ever put to screen. Read more
Published on Jun 15 2003
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