History Film / TheThreeMusketeers1973

%% * TheAlcoholic: Athos. And he's played by Creator/OliverReed.

%% * BittersweetEnding: Like the book.

%% * BookDumb: D'Artagnan.

%% * CrashIntoHello: How D'Artagnan meets the musketeers, as in the book.

%% * MarkOfShame: The brand on Milady's shoulder.

* {{Retcon}}: Rochefort was explicitly killed off in the second film with Richelieu stating as much, but is revealed to have survived in ''The Return of the Musketeers''.

%% * AdaptationalVillainy: Rochefort.

Directed by Creator/RichardLester from a screenplay by Creator/GeorgeMacDonaldFraser with a soundtrack by Music/MichelLegrand (replaced by Lalo Schifrin on ''The Four Musketeers''), they star Creator/MichaelYork as D'Artagnan, Creator/OliverReed, Creator/RichardChamberlain, and Frank Finlay as the three Musketeers, Creator/MichaelHordern as Tréville, Creator/CharltonHeston, Creator/FayeDunaway, and Creator/ChristopherLee as the villains and Creator/RaquelWelch as the LoveInterest.

** In ''The Three Musketeers'', Georges Wilson (de Treville, the commander of the musketeers) is dubbed by Michael Hordern.
** In ''The Return of the Musketeers'', Eusebio Lázaro, Jean-Pierre Cassel and Creator/PhilippeNoiret are all dubbed by British actors.

Directed by Creator/RichardLester from a screenplay by Creator/GeorgeMacDonaldFraser with a soundtrack by Music/MichelLegrand (replaced by Lalo Schifrin on ''The Four Musketeers''), they star Creator/MichaelYork as D'Artagnan, Creator/OliverReed, Creator/RichardChamberlain, and Frank Finlay as the three Musketeers, Creator/CharltonHeston, Creator/FayeDunaway, and Creator/ChristopherLee as the villains and Creator/RaquelWelch as the LoveInterest.

* ExactEavesdropping: Zig-zagged. One of the [[PunchClockVillain Cardinal's spies]]. is seen reporting on a panicked conversation he heard Constance and the Queen having about how to retrieve the diamonds and about the need to send a messenger. But the flashback accompanied by his voiceover then has the two of them suddenly make shushing sounds when they realize there is a spy. The spy himself continues his report to give Richelieu a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech [[MoodWhiplash by pretending that they'd kept talking]], and that it was something he'd overheard them saying.
--> ''Spy: '' That devil has spies everywhere. That evil man, dirty, filthy, evil, nasty, dirty, that evil man calling himself a priest. (Richelieu glares). [[BlatantLies Is what it says here]].

Directed by Creator/RichardLester from a screenplay by Creator/GeorgeMacDonaldFraser with a soundtrack by Music/MichelLegrand (replaced by Music/LaloSchifrin on ''The Four Musketeers''), they star Creator/MichaelYork as D'Artagnan, Creator/OliverReed, Creator/RichardChamberlain, and Frank Finlay as the three Musketeers, Creator/CharltonHeston, Creator/FayeDunaway, and Creator/ChristopherLee as the villains and Creator/RaquelWelch as the LoveInterest.

** In the book, D'Artangan intercepts and has a duel with Comte de Wardes. In the film, he fights Rochefort (who is his cousin in the book).

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last we see of Kitty, she's being abused by Milady after D'Artangan escapes. In the book, he has her transfered in order to escape Milady's vengeance.

%% * MookLieutenant: Jussac.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: D'Artagnan treats his servant [[ButtMonkey Planchet]] (played by frequent Lester collaborator Roy Kinnear) like dirt. This is PlayedForLaughs.

* WrittenInAbsence: Creator/RichardChamberlain quit ''The Return of the Musketeers'' because he was angry at the producers lack of reaction over the death of Roy Kinnear. This is why Chamberlain's role is so brief in the final film.

The director, the screenwriter and much of the cast reunited again for ''The Return of the Musketeers'' in 1989, which is loosely based on the novel ''Twenty Years After''.

Directed by Creator/RichardLester from a screenplay by Creator/GeorgeMacDonaldFraser with a soundtrack by Music/MichelLegrand (replaced by Music/LaloSchifrin on ''The Four Musketeers''), they star Creator/MichaelYork as D'Artagnan, Creator/OliverReed, Creator/RichardChamberlain, and Frank Finlay as the three Musketeers, and Creator/CharltonHeston, Creator/FayeDunaway, and Creator/ChristopherLee as the villains.

* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Constance gets her hands on a key which she triumphantly dropped into her cleavage--having forgotten that her friends needed that key to unlock the chains and '''rescue''' her. And then, it being a very small key, it slipped further down and she couldn't dig it out. Eventually she tries [[{{Gainaxing}} jumping up and down]] in hopes that it would fly out.

* MasterForger: The Duke of Buckingham, having met The Three Musketeers while on a secret mission in France, discovers that two large jewels are missing from his collarpiece. These were taken by the guileful Countess de Winter to keep the Duke from spoiling her machinations. The Duke visits a decrepit-looking fellow called O'Reilly (a dual role for Frank Finlay, who also plays Porthos) who happens to have a talent for making copies, and hires him thusly:

* IGaveMyWord: D'artagnan is facing Cardinal Richelieu who is about to hang him for a variety of illegal acts which destroyed the Cardinal's plan. D'artagnan hands Richelieu a note which says "By my order and for the good of the state, the bearer has done what has been done", basically a "get out of jail free" card. Richelieu accepts it, says "Be careful what you write, and be careful whom you give it to" (causing D'artagnan and the audience a moment of concern, thinking he is going to rip it up), but then follows this trope straight by honoring the document he himself wrote and releasing D'artagnan, even though it was intended as a blanket pardon to excuse Milady de Winter from her acts which would have advanced the Cardinal's plan.
* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Milady's executioner demands extra pay for taking her in a boat, saying that he's a headsman, not a boatsman.

** In the book, d'artangan intercepts and has a duel with Comte de Wardes. In the film, he fights Rochefort (who is his cousin in the book).
** In the book, it is Rochefort who tells the friends to surrender their swords and see the cardinal. Seeing as he's dead at this point, Jussac fills this role.

'''D'Artagnan:''' ''I'' am only one person. That is a servant.

* PullingTheRugOut: PlayedForLaughs. Near the end of the movie D'Artagnan confronts several guards inside the palace. He grabs the rug they're standing on and tries to pull it out from under them, but only succeeds in ripping off the edge of the rug. As the guards are not actually involved in the current fight they don't pursue him and just wonder aloud why a random guy tore their carpet and ran.

%% * NothingPersonal: "I have no enemies. ''France'' has enemies."