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Too much of everything

good back-story, and good acting

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Sixteen forty-eight and France is in hot water. Robert Douglass and his goons are plotting against the ailing old queen. The number of queens against whom Robert Douglass had plotted are too numerous to count.Time to muster the Four Musketeers -- Athos, Porthos, Aramis, D'Artignan, Paramus, Pasaic, and Patterson -- except that they are either dead or ridden with gout. So the sons of the three musketeers join forces along with the daughter of Athos, Maureen O'Hara at her most ravishing. She's been trained in swordplay and is dressed in masculine garb so at first the others take her for a boy. That's a novel touch.I couldn't make it to the end. It's supposed to be a good-hearted tale of derring-do but it doesn't hold a candle to Errol Flynn's best swashbucklers. It isn't that Cornell Wilde, as the son of D'Artignan, doesn't know how to wield a sword. He was on the fencing team at Columbia University. But he must have been forced to unlearn whatever he knew of fencing and instead learned the arts of fighting with furniture and holding off hordes of swordsmen with a single blade.The costumes are colorful and the hills of California make a serviceable substitute for France but, how to put this?, the atmosphere of action and jollity seems forced. The musketeers laugh uproariously at the corniest remarks. Except when fighting, they laugh in a most unbuttoned manner. They laugh at each other. They laugh at the enemy. They laugh when they're at death's door. Made me feel like the only person at the party who wasn't stoned.It is, however, full of gaudy action and a romance between Wilde and O'Hara. That's about as far as I got. The direction is terrible. The actors don't have a chance in this misguided effort. The kids should enjoy it, though, if they can put up with the absence of the kind of brutal violence they've seen on the screen lately.

This is truly an excellent swashbuckling adventure starring Muareen O'Hara and Cornel Wilde. There are lots of impressive sword fights. Maureen o'Hara is gorgeous funny and fights excellently with a sword. As well as sword fights there is lots of humour and wit in the film. The film centres around the sons and daughter of the musketeers. They must assist queen Anne in her fight against Lavalle.I recommend this to anyone who is a fan of the three musketeers from 1948 film starring Gene Kelly and Lana Turner. Heaps of fun 10/10 glad they are releasing this on warner archives DVD.Chris

This movie is one of my all time favorites! Swashbuckling, funny, adventurous and downright silly at times, it is ALWAYS entertaining to watch.This is the movie that really made me fall for Maureen O'Hara. Red hair, green eyes, and she swordfights better than any man in this movie! What more could you want?This movie seems to have brought out the true sense of whimsy in all of the cast. Their grins give them away throughout the movie. They were obviously having a blast. And so do we.

It was awhile ago that I say this movie. I've been trying to find some place to acquire it for my home library. I think this was a great movie. Extremely well done. I'd recommend it to anyone.