The Three Musketeers Review
Samedi, juillet 3rd, 2010
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I’m a tremendous fan of objective about everything musketeers related (gaze at my other reviews), and this is my popular colossal cover adaptation. Kelly is easlily the most fun D’Artagnon to peek and the sword play in this movie is generous with his athleticism.
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Of course, anyone who read the new would know that though it includes sword play it is the charaters and spot that depart the memoir along, so in that respect this movie does a powerful better job than most Musketeer adaptations. It stays fairly stop to the recent situation and though there is dinky time spent developing their personalities the Three are more consistant with their literary counterparts than in, well really, any of the other adaptations.
Over all one of the most fun adventure movies I’ve seen.
This is a fun film elephantine of action and comedy. The players are incredible - Gene Kelly as D’Artagnan, Van Heflin as Athos, Gig Young as Porthos, Lana Turner as Milady DeWinter, June Allyson as Constance, Vincent Trace as Cardinal Richelieu and more. Kelly is delightfully acrobatic, jumping around as if his legs were coiled springs, swinging on ropes, fencing like a master - he is a joy to see - he puts Erroll Flynn to shame. Van Heflin and Gig Young are perfect as his comrades - heroic, dashing, as well as foolish and impetuous. Lana Turner is the pretty and perilous Milady DeWinter who seduces men to finish the Cardinal’s purposes and can be deadly. June Allyson is the virtuous and hapless Constance. Vincent Impress is marvelously depraved as Cardinal Richelieu - he uses people like chess pieces and even when thwarted he doesn’t wish to demolish D’Artagnan but to recruit him. The King is Frank Morgan (the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz), a bumbling but good-hearted king who doesn’t quite know what is going on. The costumes and sets are breathtaking and the Technicolor is as profitable as it gets. There are some stunning exterior actions scenes along the ocean (undoubtedly the Pacific but peaceful blooming) .
It is Kelly who pulls the narrate together, however. He seems to be everywhere at once, so fleshy of energy and life. Although he is a bumpkin from Gascony he is more than a match with a sword for any man in Paris be he one of the King’s Musketeer or one of the Cardinal’s guards. He does quite a lot with his eyes and his facial expressions, a bit overacted occasionally but calm quite delightful. Lana Turner has top billing and she is deliciously exquisite with a seemingly endless wardrobe of amazing costumes From the first scene, however, this movie is all Kelly’s - it seems a bit outlandish that he is so first-rate in what is primarily an action film - but have no doubt he is completely convincing as the most athletic and acrobatic D’Artagnan ever seen on the camouflage - he is a bit like Burt Lancaster in “The Crimson Pirate” but without the trampoline. Van Heflin has the most serious role as the nobleman-turned-drunken musketeer - lamenting the loss of his treacherous wife and then trying to warn D’Artagnan of the trouble of Milady, who loves him not and is far more unsafe than any of his swordman adversaries.
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This is a version of this often-told tale where the film makers “got it upright” - there is plenty of action, comedy, romance, intrigue, villainy, heartbreak all going on seemingly at once. The characters are portrayed closely to the blueprint they were written by Dumas and this is precisely how they should be played.
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