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The Four Musketeers is the title of a 1974 Richard Lester film, which follows upon his film of the previous year, The Three Musketeers, and covers the second half of Dumas' novel. See The Three Musketeers. Fifteen years later, the cast and crew returned to film The Return of the Musketeers, loosely based on Dumas' Twenty Years After.
The actors were not made aware that they were working on two films simultaneously (The Three Musketeers was released in 1973). Charlton Heston — who was handsomely paid for what was essentially a cameo role — was the only actor who did not feel cheated.
This is much the darker of the two films. There is less of the lighthearted horseplay seen in the first film. Constance is murdered by Milady, Rochefort is slain by d'Artagnan, and Milady is executed by a headsman as the Musketeers look on. We also get the lugubrious backstory of the tangled relationship between Athos and Milady, and an extended prison episode in which Milady uses her feminine wiles to turn the Duke of Buckingham's manservant into a deranged assassin. The ending, in which d'Artagnan triumphs over Richelieu's plotting and becomes an officer (at the cost of all his friendships with the Musketeers), is rather abrupt.
As compensation, the climactic swordplay scenes are a glorious blowout, starting with a free-for-all outside the convent where Constance is hiding that encompasses all manner of stunts and slapstick, as well as a classic badass faceoff between Athos and Rochefort. This leads directly to a no-holds-barred deathmatch between d'Artagnan and Rochefort, with cinematographer David Watkins fully explotiing the beautiful lighting possibilities of the chapel where the long antagonism between hero and head villain is finally decided.
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hu: A négy testőr, avagy a Milady bosszúja
