The Four Musketeers (also known as The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge) is a 1974 Richard Lester film that is a sequel to The Three Musketeers, and covers the second half of Dumas' novel 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.
During production on The Three Musketeers, the producers realized that the production was so large that they would not be able to complete the film as it was initially intended (as a roadshow epic with intermission) and make their initially announced release date, so the decision was made to split the project into two films and created The Four Musketeers to be released six months after the release of the first installment. Most of the actors were incensed that their work on the long shoot was used to make an entirely separate film. All SAG actors' contracts now have what is known as the "Salkind clause", which stipulates how many films are being made.Synopsis
During a war between France and the Protestant rebels of La Rochelle, Cardinal Richelieu orders Count de Rochefort to kidnap Constance Bonancieux. The evil Milady de Winter, who wants revenge on d'Artagnan, seduces him to keep him occupied. D'Artagnan soon discovers her true nature, however, and also that she was once married to Athos, who had supposedly killed her after discovering that she was a branded criminal.
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