The Three Musketeers
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Allan Dwan
Don Ameche
The Ritz Brothers
Binnie Barnes
Gloria Stuart
Pauline Moore
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
On the road to Paris to join the King's musketeers, D'Artagnan of Gascony is insulted by fellow musketeers Aramis, Athos and Porthos. In response, D'Artagnan slanders the three musketeers and arranges for a duel at the Coq D'Or tavern. While awaiting D'Artagnan, the musketeers engage in a drinking match with three lackeys, who drink them under the table and then deck themselves in the musketeers' uniforms. Arriving at the tavern, D'Artagnan mistakes the lackeys for the musketeers, and before they can protest, the four are attacked by Cardinal Richelieu's guardsmen and join forces to defeat their attackers. That night, D'Artagnan takes a room at the inn and meets Lady Constance, who has accompanied the Queen to a lover's rendezvous with France's enemy, Lord Buckingham. As a token of love, the Queen presents an emerald brooch to Buckingham, an act observed by the innkeeper, Naveau, who reports to Richelieu. To prove the Queen's disloyalty, the cardinal plots to seize possession of the brooch and sends Milady De Winter and De Rochefort to steal the brooch from Buckingham. Upon discovering Richelieu's treachery, Constance pleads with D'Artagnan to recover the brooch, and he sets out with his three companions to the port of Calais, the gateway to England. There, he meets Milady De Winter, who, informed of D'Artagnan's mission, takes him captive. On the road back to Paris, however, Milady De Winter's coach breaks down at an inn, and the three lackeys are able to rescue D'Artagnan and the brooch. Learning that Constance is being held prisoner at the cardinal's country estate, D'Artagnan is about to leave to rescue his sweetheart when Milady De Winter arrives and denounces the foursome. Once again, the four escape with Constance and the brooch, hotly pursued by the cardinal's guards. Meanwhile, the Queen, who has been commanded to appear at a royal ball wearing her brooch, is about to make her entrance when Constance slips her the brooch, thus thwarting the Cardinal's plot.
Director
Allan Dwan
Cast
Don Ameche
The Ritz Brothers
Binnie Barnes
Gloria Stuart
Pauline Moore
Joseph Schildkraut
John Carradine
Lionel Atwill
Miles Mander
Douglas Dumbrille
John King
Russell Hicks
Gregory Gaye
Lester Matthews
Egon Brecher
Moroni Olsen
Georges Renavent
Montague Shaw
Jean Perry
Fredrik Vogeding
Jacques Lory
Jean De Briac
George Sorel
Joe Balch
Eugene Borden
Alphonse Martell
Jules Raucourt
Dave Thursby
Anita Pike
Constant Franke
Louis Mercier
Joseph De Stefani
George Plues
Agostino Borgato
George Davis
June Storey
Don Maccracken
Iva Stewart
Lillian Porter
Crew
Walter Bullock
David Buttolph
Jack Dennis
William A. Drake
Ray Golden
Raymond Griffith
David Hall
Sam Hellman
Roger Heman
Bernard Herzbrun
Sid Kuller
George Leverett
Thomas Little
Peverell Marley
M. M. Musselman
Samuel Pokrass
Aaron Rosenberg
Royer
Darryl F. Zanuck
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
She's walking a post office.- D'Artagnan
Trivia
Notes
The working title of this picture was One for All. According to a materials contained in the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Theater Arts Libary, Amanda Duff was considered for the role of Constance and Nigel de Brulier that of Richelieu. A Hollywood Reporter production chart also included Duff in the cast. For more information on other versions of the Alexandre Dumas novel, listing for The Three Musketeers.
