The Three Musketeers

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Three Musketeers, 1974.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Three Musketeers, 1973.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Three Musketeers, 1974.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Three Musketeers, 1973.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Three Musketeers, 1974.

Lodger and musketeer-in-waiting D'Artagnan (Michael York) acquires a servant (Roy Kinnear) then lodging from Bonacieux (Spike Milligan), whose wife Constance (Raquel Welch), turns his head, in Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers, 1973.

Having bumbled his way to Paris, wannabe musketeer D'Artagnan (Michael York) gets a quick look at Porthos (Frank Finlay), Aramis (Richard Chamberlain) and Athos, (Oliver Reed), on the way to meet their boss (Georges Wilson), early in Richard Lester's hit version of The Three Musketeers, 1973.

Director Richard Lester's rendering of the triple-duel scene, D'Artagnan (Michael York) meets first Athos (Oliver Reed), then Aramis (Richard Chamberlain) and Porthos (Frank Finlay), then the cardinal's guards led by Jussac (Angel del Pozo), in The Three Musketeers, 1973.

Neat scene probing perhaps the most interesting relationship in Richard Lester's otherwise rollicking film, Charlton Heston as Cardinal Richelieu maybe gets the better of his agent Rochefort (Christopher Lee), Spike Milligan the trampled Bonnacieux, in The Three Musketeers, 1973.

Leaving his parents (Joss Ackland, Gretchen Franklin), would-be Musketeer D'Artagnan (Michael York) straight away meets Rochefort (Christopher Lee) who happens to be imparting instructions to Milady (Faye Dunaway), comedy to the forefront in Richard Lester's hit The Three Musketeers, 1973.

Already down a man, Aramis (Richard Chamberlain) and Athos (Oliver Reed) fall in an ambush, D'artagnan (Michael York) and servant (Roy Kinnear) carrying on, while in England, Milady (Faye Dunaway) has her way with regrettably fickle Buckingham (Simon Ward), in The Three Musketeers, 1973.

Director Richard Lester's smooth introductions of Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston), the queen (Geraldine Chaplin) and King Louis XIII (Jean-Pierre Cassel), playing lawn-chess with pooches, in The Three Musketeers,1973, from George MacDonald Fraser's screenplay.