The Four Musketeers

12/26/2023

Whilst it's not quite as good as last year's effort, Richard Lester has managed to reassemble the cast for another romp through Alexandre Dumas' stories of derring-do at the court of King Louis XIII (Jean-Pierre Cassel). Now following his near miss last time, Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston) has become even more fixated on exposing the Queen (Geraldine Chaplin) and her British lover Buckingham (Simon Ward) and so has commissioned "Rochefort" (Christopher Lee) and the menacing "Lady De Winter" (Faye Dunaway) to get the secrets from dressmaker "Constance" (Raquel Welch). Meantime, the loved-up "D'Artagnan" - the particularly scrawny Michael York - is also on her trail, aided by his three colleagues "Porthos" (Frank Finlay), "Aramis" (Richard Chamberlain) and "Athos" (Oliver Reed) and adv