The Return of the Musketeers Movie Review 1989

Lester's third Musketeers film (after his successful double-act in the '70s) is a good-natured but average costume/comedy/buddy film. Twenty years after D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis saved the French queen from scandal it's time to do it all over again. Milady DeWinter, who hatched the first plot, is dead but her equally devious daughter Justine is more than able to take mama's scheming place. Just to add a little more excitement Athos' adopted son Raoul meets Justine and passions fly amidst the swordplay. Based on the Alexandre Dumas novel "Twenty Years After."

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 103 minutes.
Originally from British, French, Spanish.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Comic Adventure, Buddies, Royalty, French, Swashbucklers, Books to Film: Alexandre Dumas, Period Piece: 17th Century, Revenge

Screenplay

George MacDonald Fraser

Cast

Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain, Kim Cattrall, C. Thomas Howell, Geraldine Chaplin, Roy Kinnear, Christopher Lee, Philippe Noiret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Billy Connolly, Eusebio Lazaro

Director

Richard Lester

Producer

Pierre Spengler, Mark Huffam