Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

jacobs-greenwood Directed by George Sidney, with a screenplay by Robert Ardrey that was based on the Alexandre Dumas novel, this particular screen adaptation of the famous story earned an Academy Award nomination for its Color Cinematography (Robert H. Planck's second of four unrewarded Oscar nominations in that category) and is notable for lead Gene Kelly's acrobatic portrayal of D'Artagnan, the fourth musketeer. Otherwise, it's an average action adventure romance drama (swashbuckler) with a highly recognizable cast that seems less than what it could have been.Top billed Lana Turner plays the wicked Lady de Winter, M'lady, June Allyson plays Constance Bonacieux (the role that Raquel Welch so deliciously made her own in the 1973 remake), Van Heflin seems particularly well-suited to play Athos, the king's musketeer who has reason to drink heavily per his past with M'lady, Angela Lansbury plays Queen Anne, who relies on Constance to use beau D'Artagnan to retrieve her jewels from England's Duke of Buckingham (John Sutton) to keep secret their love from her husband King Louis XIII (Frank Morgan) of France when Prime Minister Richelieu (Vincent Price), who would love to have war between the countries, contrives to expose the clandestine relationship.Keenan Wynn plays D'Artagnan's trusty servant Planchet. Gig Young appears the least among the musketeers as Porthos, who receives a wound to his tush, and Robert Coote plays the dandy ladies man musketeer, Aramis. Reginald Owen plays the King's Captain of the Musketeers, de Treville. After brash young D'Artagnan, at his father's (Robert Warwick, uncredited) urging, goes to Paris to become a musketeer and soon finds himself scheduled to fight duels with the three titled characters, Ian Keith plays his first real sword opponent, de Rochefort, Richelieu's primary swordsman. Patricia Medina plays M'lady's assistant and spy, Kitty. Byron Foulger appears uncredited as Bonacieux, D'Artagnan's landlord and Constance's father.

drednm Gene Kelly can't act and he proves it in this ponderous and boring version of the Dumas novel that's full of continuity problems and bad acting, not to mention miscasting.Kelly plays D'Artagnan as a buffoon, and without his lifts he looks like he's standing in a hole through most of the film. Van Heflin overacts as the droopy Athos. The other two musketeers (Gig Young, Robert Coote) hardly make a blip in this version. Lana Turner gets top billing even though she's not a musketeer, and she never learned how to act. June Allyson is wasted as Kelly's "love." Vincent Price is OK as Richelieu but is historically inaccurate as is King Louis, with Frank Morgan being about 100 years too old for the part. Angela Lansbury disappears (lucky for her) about half way through the interminable film.In lesser roles, Keenan Wynn is totally miscast as a servant. John Sutton brings nothing to Buckingham. Marie Windsor is a lady in waiting and disappears but then Patricia Medina (Turner's maid) just appears out of nowhere. Neither part makes any sense.The endless dueling is stupid since everyone has a gun. They duel just about everyplace you can think of, even on the beach. In total, they use about 3 fencing moves over and over and over again. It's obviously NOT Kelly doing all the Fairbanks-type stunts (the ugly wig was handy for disguising the stunt man's face). When Wynn clunks his head on a fireplace, his rat-nest wig almost falls off.And what's with the 3-D thing where everything was aimed at the camera? That went nowhere. Terrible continuity between closeups and long shots. History tells us the films was a huge hot for MGM but since it cost $4.5M and grossed $4.2M the accountants must have performed some miracle math to declare this turkey a winner.Thank god no one dances and no one sings!

ma-cortes M-G-M presents Dumas' exciting story of love and adventure ,¨The three musketeers¨ . For the first time is adapted in the greatest Hollywood splendor , the complete romance , the historical characters, the full novel just as Alexandre Dumas write it . It is packed with comedy , derring-do , intrigue, a love story , action , drama and moving swordplay . An awesome casting and lavish production shot in Metro Goldwyn Studios make for a fairly amusement swashbuckler . This is the classic version of the Dumas's novel with a handsome Gene Kelly in a brave role as a young and handsome soldier of fortune , a dashing , audacious lover . This is a slight and high budgeted retelling about the durable Alexandre Dumas's novel with all-star-cast . This delightful adaptation based on Alexandro Dumas classic novel starts with the youngster D'Artagnan who arrives in Paris to find Mister Treville(Reginald Owen) , chief of Musketeers . But he meets three two-fisted Musketeers , Athos (Van Heflin) , a rollicking adventurer , fighting to live and living to love , Porthos (Gig Young) and Aramis (Robert Coote) . DÁrtagnan to be aware they are Musketeers and is invited to unite them in their objective to struggle against guards of Cardinal Richelieu , his deputy Rochefort (Ian Hunter) , and an astute secret agent named Milady De Winter (Lana Turner) who is lovely as a jewel , deadly as a dagger the wickedest woman in all Christendom . Meanwhile , D'Artagnan falls in love with a gorgeous young named Constance (June Allyson), daughter an innkeeper , she is a golden-haired beauty entangled in a web of treachery and intrigue . Furthermore , there is developed an intrigue between Luis XIII (Frank Morgan ) , Queen Anna of Austria (Angela Lansbury) , dazzling as her gilded palace for her , men dared a thousand perils , and Duke of Buckingham (John Sutton) ; and , of course ,the nasty Richelieu (Vincent Price) . The musketeers join forces for royal vengeance with the shout : ¨One for all and all for one¨.It's a magnificent rendition from the immortal novel in big budget and breathtaking scenarios . The picture contains rousing action , intrigue , romantic adventure , mayhem and a lot of fencing . Entertaining swashbuckling with lavish production by Pandro S. Berman , glamorous gowns and luxurious sets by Oscar winning Cedric Gibbons . Sympathetic performances by main star cast and enjoyable secondary cast ; as the marvelous main actors are completed by stellar support cast full of classical and veteran players as Vicent Price , Reginald Owen , Keenan Wynn , Frank Morgan and several others . Colorful cinematography in the splendor of Technicolor by Robert Planck . Evocative musical score by Herbert Stothart based on Tchaikowski themes . Lush production design is well reflected on the luxurious interiors and exteriors filmed at Hollywood . The motion picture was well realized by George Sidney (Scaramouche , that he subsequently made in similar style). This classy story is subsequently remade on several versions , firstly take on this classic turns out to be the following : 1921 silent version by Fred Niblo with Douglas Fairbanks . And going on 1935 adaptation by Rowland V. Lee with Walter Abel and Paul Lukas ; 1973 amusing version by Richard Lester with Michael York , Oliver Reed and Raquel Welch ; 1993 modern adaptation by Stephen Herek with Charlie Sheen , Kiefer Sutherland , Oliver Platt and Chris O'Donnell , and 2001 rendition by Peter Hyams with Justin Chambers , Mena Suvari and Tim Roth , among others. ¨The three Musketeers¨ is an outstanding and entertaining adaptation of the classy that will appeal to the costumer genre buffs and it results to be an excellent adaptation with big budget based on the classic tale .

silverscreen888 "The Three Musketeers" is unarguably an adventure film of great physical beauty and quite a bit of narrative power. It stands just after "The Best Years of Our lives" as one of the first Technicolor "A" films that broadened the palette used by filmmakers to include richness as well as, say, western or Arabian settings in adventure movies. To director George Sidney goes much of the credit for the film's swiftness of pace and attractive visual elements. With cinematography by Robert Planck, art direction by Malcolm Brown and the great Cedric Gibbons, elaborate set decorations by Edwin B, Willis and Henry Grace, and costumes by legendary Walter Plunkett, the film moves from rustic scenes to sumptuous interiors via scenes of swordplay that are often stunning. Add makeup by Jack Dawn, hair designs by Larry Germain and Sydney Guilaroff, sound by Douglas Shearer and Herbert Stothart's original music and use of Tschaikovsy themes--and the result I suggest is a quite satisfying viewing experience. But the plot has something more, perhaps, as well. The original Alexandre Dumas's (the father) storyline as treated by Robert Ardrey's screenplay comes out as an intelligent but somewhat satirical-cynical look at life in the France of the time of Cardinal Richelieu and King Louis XIII. In adopting an objective, light-hearted tone, similar to that in "North By Northwest', the producer Pandro S. Berman and the writers gain for the film the ability to do memorable comedy as well as occasionally far-more-serious scenes. What is lost in concentrated dramatic power is made up fin such an adventure if the actors are able to invest its goings on with the seriousness of their taking it seriously, bringing it to life professionally. I suggest that in the lavish production, this level of artistry was almost everywhere achieved. The large cast features such attractive artists as Angela Lansbury as the Queen, John Sutton as Buckingham, June Allyson very-well-used as Constance, Robert Warwick as D'Artagnan's father, Keenan Wynn as Planchet the servant, Reginald Owen and Ian Keith, Patricia Medina and Richard Wyler. In featured roles, one can enjoy stellar work by Robert Coote as Aramis, Gig Young as Porthos, Frank Morgan as the King and Gene Kelly as an athletic and often lyrical D'Artagnan. But the acting honors in the film belong to actor worthies Van Helfin, who dominates in the role of the hard-drinking Athos and Vincent Price, who makes immense amounts out of what he is allowed to do as an understated Richelieu. The curious casting is that of attractive Lana Turner as Lady De Winter; she is not capable yet of classical work, but she suggests some of her part's potential depths. This famous story of the young Gascon joining the three best swordsmen in France and learning more about life than he had bargained for is here given as much power perhaps as it can handle; and rich scenes of sword battles, interpersonal misunderstandings and a sense of controlled importance makes, I suggest, the story's dark moments memorable and the fun more important than it might have been. I find this to be a masterly understatement of a truly classic adventure.