The Four Musketeers - The Revenge of Milady
The Four Musketeers - Revenge of Milady , also known as The Queen's Four Scoundrels and The Four Musketeers is a British adventure film from 1974 by the American director Richard Lester . The screenplay, written by George MacDonald Fraser , is based on the second half of Alexandre Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers . The shooting took place in Spain ; the film premiered on December 25, 1974 in Sweden . The work is the second part of the trilogy about the three musketeers, which began last year with The Three Musketeers and ended 15 years later with The Return of the Musketeers . In all three films, the same actors playing the leading roles, and the bar is essentially occupied the same.
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The four musketeers D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis try everything to get their King Louis XIII. and to save his wife Anna of Austria from intrigues. This becomes increasingly difficult, however, as her greatest enemy, Milady de Winter, brings out heavier and heavier guns to take revenge on D'Artagnan and his friends for interfering in their plans.
As the plot of the film begins, La Rochelle, a stronghold of French Protestants, is besieged by the king's army . Constance is kidnapped by Rochefort and the cardinal guards in front of her beloved D'Artagnan, and he himself is taken in by de Winter. Despite her advances and an offer of protection from Cardinal Richelieu , D'Artagnan tries everything to find Constance.
The four musketeers finally track down Constance's whereabouts, free her and place her in the nunnery of Armentières . On the way to La Rochelle, Athos accidentally overhears a secret meeting between de Winter and the cardinal, in which he mediates a new assignment for the former: to get the Duke of Buckingham to withdraw his support for the rebels in La Rochelle. To do this, de Winter demands a power of attorney from the cardinal that entitles her (without explicit formulation) to murder D'Artagnan and Constanze. Immediately thereafter, Athos de Winter reveals himself: once he was a nobleman, the Comte de la Fère; he had once married de Winter, but when she was found to be a branded criminal he had given up his noble title out of shame and enrolled with the Musketeers. He forces de Winter to give him the authorization and warns them not to pursue D'Artagnan any further.
During the fighting at La Rochelle, Athos tells D'Artagnan and the others about de Winter's plans. D'Artagnan, who has come to appreciate Buckingham, wants to warn him and sends Planchet to him, but de Winter has already set her plans in motion. After she failed with persuasion and then attempted an assassination attempt, Buckingham has her incarcerated in the Tower under the supervision of his own servant . With the help of her seductive skills, however, she succeeds in pulling the servant on her side, helping her to escape and even getting him to murder the Duke, just as Planchet is about to bring him the warning.
After La Rochelle had to surrender, the four musketeers travel to the monastery to pick up Constance, but thanks to a spy close to the Queen, Rochefort and de Winter also found out about the hiding place and prepared an ambush in the monastery. While the musketeers have to deal with Rochefort and the cardinal's guard, de Winter enters Constance's room disguised as a nun and strangles her. Furious with rage, D'Artagnan puts Rochefort to fight, and after a tough fight in the chapel of the monastery, D'Artagnan pierces his archenemy with his sword.
De Winter is caught personally by Athos, and for her crimes she is executed on a lake by a hired executioner without trial and only in the presence of the musketeers, but the four friends are arrested by the cardinal's guard immediately afterwards. In a second audience, Richelieu again offers D'Artagnan his protection for his services, which D'Artagnan refuses. When Richelieu then declares that D'Artagnan will most certainly come to court for his murders of "loyal public servants", D'Artagnan shows him the power of attorney for de Winter, which, thanks to its vague wording, fully legitimizes his actions. Richelieu gives in tacitly defeated and even gives D'Artagnan a letter of promotion for a lieutenant's position , which he only accepts after his friends refuse it for personal reasons and then congratulate their friend on his new position with a friendly kick.
background
During the post-production of the predecessor The Three Musketeers , the producers realized that there was enough film material for two films and created The Four Musketeers from the excess scenes . Most actors were upset that their performance was being used during the long filming to create two separate films. In any contract with actors who are members of the Screen Actors Guild are, since a sentence is obtained, which as "Salkind clause" (English. Salkind clause ) is known, the states are like to make a lot of films from a project.
In the German dubbed version, humor-heavy sentences were incorporated in numerous places that did not appear in the original English version, or various parts of the original script were slightly changed with this aim. In addition, some scenes were cut out in some versions, in particular the execution of Milady de Winter towards the end of the film.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films said: “The adventure film, which revels in precious features, once again captivates with its ingenious comedic moments, although it seems a bit harder, less parodic and stylistically less closed than the first part.” The TV magazine Prisma called the film “ A sequel to the Alexandre Dumas film adaptation, The Three Musketeers by Richard Lester, who is known for his irreverent humor, which is not to be taken very seriously .
Awards
Academy Award 1976
Nominations
BAFTA Award 1976
Nominations
- Best Costumes (Yvonne Blake)
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created in 1974 in the Hamburg studio .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Athos | Oliver Reed | Michael Chevalier |
| Constance de Bonancieux | Raquel Welch | Renate Pichler |
| Aramis | Richard Chamberlain | Peter Kirchberger |
| D'Artagnan | Michael York | Uwe Friedrichsen |
| Porthos | Frank Finlay | Gerd Martienzen |
| Rochefort | Christopher Lee | Gottfried Kramer |
| Anna of Austria | Geraldine Chaplin | Renate Danz |
| Planchet | Roy Kinnear | Gerd Duwner |
| Felton | Michael Gothard | Lutz Mackensy |
| Duke of Buckingham | Simon Ward | Horst Stark |
| Louis XIII | Jean-Pierre Cassel | Günther Jerschke |
| Cardinal Richelieu | Charlton Heston | Holger Hagen |
Web links
- The four musketeers - Revenge of Milady in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Four Musketeers - The Revenge of Milady in the online film database
- The four musketeers - Revenge of Milady at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- The four musketeers - The revenge of my lady on arte.tv on the occasion of a broadcast
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Richard Chamberlain ( Memento of March 13, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Schnittberichte.com: The Queen's Four Musketeers, Die (as of June 5, 2015).
- ↑ The Four Musketeers - The Revenge of the Milady. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 1, 2017 .
- ↑ See prisma.de
- ↑ See synchrondatenbank.de ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
