The Return of the Musketeers
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The Return of the Musketeers | |
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Directed by | Richard Lester |
Produced by | Michelle de Broca Pierre Spengler |
Written by | Alexandre Dumas (novel) G. MacDonald Fraser |
Starring | Michael York Oliver Reed |
Music by | Jean-Claude Petit |
Cinematography | Bernard Lutic |
Editing by | John Victor Smith |
Distributed by | Entertainment (UK) Universal Pictures (USA) |
Release date(s) | 1989 |
Running time | 102 min. |
Country | U.K. / France / Spain |
Language | English |
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The Return of the Musketeers is a 1989 film based on the novel Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is the third Musketeers movie directed by Richard Lester, following 1973's The Three Musketeers and 1974's The Four Musketeers. Like the other two films, the screenplay was written by George MacDonald Fraser, famous for his Flashman series.
Character actor Roy Kinnear died following an on-camera accident in which he fell off a horse.
[edit] Cast
- Michael York as d'Artagnan
- Oliver Reed as Athos
- Frank Finlay as Porthos
- Richard Chamberlain as Aramis
- C. Thomas Howell as Raoul
- Geraldine Chaplin as Anne of Austria
- Kim Cattrall as Justine de Winter
- Philippe Noiret as Cardinal Mazarin
- Christopher Lee as the Count De Rochefort
- Roy Kinnear as Planchet.
[edit] See also
- See The Three Musketeers (film) for a list of other Musketeer adaptions.