VeteranLight
I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
UnowPriceless
hyped garbage
XoWizIama
Excellent adaptation.
Murphy Howard
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Robert J. Maxwell
Sixteen forty-eight and France is in hot water. Robert Douglass and his goons are plotting against the ailing old queen. The number of queens against whom Robert Douglass had plotted are too numerous to count.Time to muster the Four Musketeers -- Athos, Porthos, Aramis, D'Artignan, Paramus, Pasaic, and Patterson -- except that they are either dead or ridden with gout. So the sons of the three musketeers join forces along with the daughter of Athos, Maureen O'Hara at her most ravishing. She's been trained in swordplay and is dressed in masculine garb so at first the others take her for a boy. That's a novel touch.I couldn't make it to the end. It's supposed to be a good-hearted tale of derring-do but it doesn't hold a candle to Errol Flynn's best swashbucklers. It isn't that Cornell Wilde, as the son of D'Artignan, doesn't know how to wield a sword. He was on the fencing team at Columbia University. But he must have been forced to unlearn whatever he knew of fencing and instead learned the arts of fighting with furniture and holding off hordes of swordsmen with a single blade.The costumes are colorful and the hills of California make a serviceable substitute for France but, how to put this?, the atmosphere of action and jollity seems forced. The musketeers laugh uproariously at the corniest remarks. Except when fighting, they laugh in a most unbuttoned manner. They laugh at each other. They laugh at the enemy. They laugh when they're at death's door. Made me feel like the only person at the party who wasn't stoned.It is, however, full of gaudy action and a romance between Wilde and O'Hara. That's about as far as I got. The direction is terrible. The actors don't have a chance in this misguided effort. The kids should enjoy it, though, if they can put up with the absence of the kind of brutal violence they've seen on the screen lately.
chrisreno181
This is truly an excellent swashbuckling adventure starring Muareen O'Hara and Cornel Wilde. There are lots of impressive sword fights. Maureen o'Hara is gorgeous funny and fights excellently with a sword. As well as sword fights there is lots of humour and wit in the film. The film centres around the sons and daughter of the musketeers. They must assist queen Anne in her fight against Lavalle.I recommend this to anyone who is a fan of the three musketeers from 1948 film starring Gene Kelly and Lana Turner. Heaps of fun 10/10 glad they are releasing this on warner archives DVD.Chris
historyrepeating
This movie is one of my all time favorites! Swashbuckling, funny, adventurous and downright silly at times, it is ALWAYS entertaining to watch.This is the movie that really made me fall for Maureen O'Hara. Red hair, green eyes, and she swordfights better than any man in this movie! What more could you want?This movie seems to have brought out the true sense of whimsy in all of the cast. Their grins give them away throughout the movie. They were obviously having a blast. And so do we.
blakduke
i have this movie in my home library, both as a purchased film and having taped from amc. the fencing sequences are some of the best on film. i do not think enough has been said of robert douglass. his fencing skills must have been superb since he fought with all of the best duelists in hollywood, errol flynn, cornel wilde,burt lancaster to name a few. all good leading men need a bad guy, and r.d. was very good at being bad.
