History Film / TheThreeMusketeers1973

* TheshibbolethKlutz: Constance, a far cry from how she's portrayed in the book.

* TheKlutz: Constance, a far cry from how she's portrayed in the book.

* 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.

* EyepatchOfPower: Creator/ChristopherLee started a trend for movie Rocheforts by sporting one. Michael Wincott and Creator/MadsMikkelsen had one in the [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993 1993]] and [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers2011 2011]] versions, and Creator/TimRoth had one in [[Film/TheMusketeer 2001]] though his character wasn't Rochefort, but an {{Expy}} of Wincott's (and the actual Rochefort was a separate character).

Directed by Richard Lester from a screenplay by Creator/GeorgeMacDonaldFraser, they star Michael York as D'Artagnan, Creator/OliverReed, Richard Chamberlain, and Frank Finlay as the three Musketeers, and Creator/CharltonHeston, Creator/FayeDunaway, and Creator/ChristopherLee as the villains.

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 ''Literature/TwentyYearsAfter''.

The director, screenwriter and much of the cast reunited for ''The Return of the Musketeers'' in 1989, which is loosely based on the novel ''Literature/TwentyYearsAfter''.

The director, screenwriter and much of the cast reunited for ''The Return of the Musketeers'' in 1989, loosely based on the novel ''Literature/TwentyYearsAfter''.

''The Three Musketeers'' (1973) and ''The Four Musketeers'' (1974) are a two-part film adaptation of the novel ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' by Creator/AlexandreDumas. Directed by Richard Lester from a screenplay by Creator/GeorgeMacDonaldFraser, they star Michael York as D'Artagnan, Creator/OliverReed, Richard Chamberlain, and Frank Finlay as the three Musketeers, and Creator/CharltonHeston, Creator/FayeDunaway, and Creator/ChristopherLee as the villains. The director, screenwriter and much of the cast reunited for ''The Return of the Musketeers'' in 1989, loosely based on the novel ''Literature/TwentyYearsAfter''.

''The Three Musketeers'' (1973) and ''The Four Musketeers'' (1974) are a two-part film adaptation of the novel ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' by Creator/AlexandreDumas. Directed by Richard Lester from a screenplay by Creator/GeorgeMacDonaldFraser, they star Michael York as D'Artagnan, Creator/OliverReed, Richard Chamberlain, and Frank Finlay as the three Musketeers, and Creator/CharltonHeston, Creator/FayeDunaway, and Creator/ChristopherLee as the villains.

The director, screenwriter and much of the cast reunited for ''The Return of the Musketeers'' in 1989, loosely based on the novel ''Literature/TwentyYearsAfter''. And in 2003, Michael York returned to the role again in the French film ''La Femme Musketeer'', about D'Artagnan's daughter. The 1979 movie ''The Fifth Musketeer'' (released in Europe as ''The Man in the Iron Mask'') isn't part of this continuity, having a different director and screenwriter and a completely different cast.

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* DividedForPublication: Planned and shot as a single film before the decision was made to split it into two, resulting in some legal wrangling over how many films' worth of payment the actors were due. Creator/CharltonHeston was allegedly the only cast member who didn't feel cheated by the double shoot -- he felt fully compensated as the part of Richelieu was not much bigger than a cameo (though far more important).

The director, screenwriter and much of the cast reunited for ''The Return of the Musketeers'' in 1989, loosely based on the novel ''Twenty Years After''. And in 2003, Michael York returned to the role again in the French film ''La Femme Musketeer'', about D'Artagnan's daughter. The 1979 movie ''The Fifth Musketeer'' (released in Europe as ''The Man in the Iron Mask'') isn't part of this continuity, having a different director and screenwriter and a completely different cast.

-->You won't need a horse on the journey you're taking, Madame. I warned you, did I not?

-->Do you really want to go after her, boy? Because - by God - I don't!

-->'''Porthos''': God's blood!! Look at that...! Ruined by you and your, your street-corner ruffians! By God, you'll pay for it! ''[Rifles the purse of a fallen Guardsman]'' Ten pistoles it cost me! ''[Reconsiders on seeing the contents of the purse]'' No -- twenty! Twenty pistoles! And twenty more, as a fine to teach you manners! Hah!

-->Only Porthos could invent a new way to disarm himself.

--> "Be advised, Gascon. ''Turn and run!''"

-->'''Milady''': The Comte de la Fere!
-->'''Athos''': No, Milady. The Comte de la Fere is dead. You killed me years ago... out riding on a summer's day. It's burned no deeper into you than it is into me.

* EyepatchOfPower: Creator/ChristopherLee started a trend for movie Rocheforts by sporting one. Michael Wincott and Mads Mikkelsen had one in the [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993 1993]] and [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers2011 2011]] versions, and Tim Roth had one in [[Film/TheMusketeer 2001]] though his character wasn't Rochefort, but an {{Expy}} of Wincott's (and the actual Rochefort was a separate character).

* TheCavalry: In the climax of the first film, D'Artagnan and Constance separately fight off the Cardinal's men and Milady to secure the Queen's diamond necklace. D'Artagnan is outnumbered, but the three Musketeers (and Planchet in a bear suit) turn up just in time to help D'Artagnan. The sub-trope of "a race against time to save the heroes" is parodied with the Musketeers riding not horses but litters.

* CuteClumsyGirl: If it can be tripped over, knocked over, or dropped, Constance would do it. At one point, d'Artagnan hears the crash of a large potted plant falling off a balcony, looks and sees a lady standing on the balcony, and says with satisfaction, "That has to be Constance." It is.

* HatDamage: Happens to Porthos in a fight.

* NarratorAllAlong: At the very end, it's revealed that Aramis was the narrator all along.
* NeverLearnedToRead: D'Artagnan. He tries to hide it, but admits it to the Duke of Buckingham.

* PayingForTheActionScene: Subverted. Temporarily embarrassed for funds and very much in need of food and drink, the Musketeers and D'Artagnan's servant Planchet cause chaos in an inn with a long, furious and faked fight...which is a pretext for numerous tricks to purloin said food and drink for later consumption at their leisure.

* ReedSnorkel: Used by D'Artagnan in an attempt to escape Rochefort.

* TheDrowningPit: In ''The Return of the Musketeers'', four of the Duke of Beaufort's supporters are chained to benches in a pit of water up to their neck and forced to operate a pump that will keep the water at that level as long as all four never stop pumping. This is treated as a Funny Background Event.

* {{Flyninng}}: {{Averted}}: Not only was the swordplay highly realistic (with moves like grabbing the opponent's blade, and hitting them with one's cloak), but all the stars were trained swordsmen. Creator/ChristopherLee admitted in an interview that he had to remind Creator/OliverReed during one of their fights that he wasn't really trying to kill him. It didn't help that the swords they used weren't foils.

* EliteMooks: The Cardinal's Guards.

* HighDiveEscape: Justine de Winter in ''The Return of the Musketeers''.

* AdaptationalComicRelief: Porthos.

* ClothingCombat: Deployed often.
* CombatHaircomb

* CuteClumsyGirl: Constance.

* DualWielding:

* NarratorAllAlong: Aramis.

* TwoPartTrilogy

* TruerToTheText: The first two movies, despite some combining, cutting and killing off of characters and a generous dose of slapstick, is extremely close to the source material than most other versions. The third is, as stated, a loose adaptation. That said, they do turn Rochefort into TheDragon in order to have a dramtic final sword fight since Milady, the real villain of the book, is a woman who's more of a schemer and manipulator.