The Four Musketeers is a 1974 Richard Lester film that follows upon his film of the year before, The Three Musketeers, and covers the second half of Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers. Fifteen years later, the cast and crew returned to film The Return of the Musketeers, loosely based on Dumas' Twenty Years After. During post production on The Three Musketeers, the producers realized that there was enough footage for two films and created The Four Musketeers. Most of the actors were incensed that their work on the long shoot was used to make an entirely separate film. All SAG actors' contracts... now have what is known as the "Salkind clause", which stipulates how many films are being made. During a war between France and the Protestant rebels of La Rochelle, Cardinal Richelieu orders Count de Rochefort to kidnap Constance de Bonancieux. The evil Milady de Winter, who wants revenge on d'Artagnan, seduces him to keep him occupied. He soon discovers her true nature, however, and that she was once in love with Athos, who had supposedly killed her however, after realizing what she was, a criminal.
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| Release date: | October 31, 1974 |
| Directed by: | Richard Lester |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 108 Minutes |
| Producer: | Alexander Salkind, Pierre Spengler, Ilya Salkind |
| Music by: | Lalo Schifrin, Michel Legrand |
| Cinematography: | David Watkin |
| Screenplay by: | George MacDonald Fraser |
| Adapted from: | The Three Musketeers |
| Genre: | Comedy, Action, Adventure |