The Three Musketeers

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces The Three Musketeers, 1948.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Three Musketeers, 1948.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Three Musketeers, 1948.

Gene Kelly's D'Artagnan arrives to duel Athos (Van Heflin), whose seconds Porthos (Gig Young) and Aramis (Robert Coote) are duly surprised, offenses forgotten when Jussac (Sol Gorss) arrives leading the cardinal's guards, in MGM's all-star The Three Musketeers, 1948.

Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, and Janet Leigh star in The Three Musketeers (1948), a lavish adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic swashbuckler.

Director George Sidney with closer looks at key players, John Sutton as the English Prime Minister, in love with French Queen Anne (Angela Lansbury), diabolical Cardinal Richelieu (Vincent Price) with his chief collaborator Lady de Winter (Lana Turner), in MGM's The Three Musketeers, 1948.

D'Artagnan (Gene Kelly) is just getting a first look at downstairs neighbor and queen's maid Constance (June Allyson) when she is attacked by Cardinal Richelieu's henchman, a rescue, aided by Planchet (Keenan Wynn) ensuing, in MGM's The Three Musketeers, 1948.