The Three Musketeers
|
List Price: Our Price: $10.28 You Save: $9.69 (49%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $9.99 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of The Three Musketeers
Movie Review: The Three Musketeers
Summary: 4 Stars
Great example of the "swashbuckling" genre...All the players are great, especially Gene Kelly...and Lana Turner is the perfect mix of beauty and poison...overall, a very good movie...Movie Review: musketeers at lodge
Summary: 4 Stars
a Zesty adventure with daredevil stunts by Gene Kelly. very good print in glorious technicolor.Movie Review: For Gene Kelly, Gravity is Optional. For George Sidney, So is Good Storytelling.
Summary: 3 Stars
If you only know Gene Kelly as a famous dancer, then you have reason enough to see this film. In the role of D'Artagnan, a young romantic out to unleash himself on the world, Kelly's is a presence to be savored. His amazing agility and commitment to his role pay off in unspeakably rich ways during the film's many swash-buckling scenes. He leaps across roofs, off and onto balconies, and across villain-filled rooms with the kind of effortlessness one only sees in comic books. He owns the physically impossible to an extent that would make Jackie Chan blush. Watching this film for the first time, I found it difficult to believe that he accomplished all of this unaided in the age before computerized special effects. Kelly is the real deal.
Unfortunately, that's where my praise of this film ends. Though filled to the brim with legendary actors and taken from a brilliant novel, this film fails to shine on any other level. George Sidney takes a character-rich adventure of light idealism and dark villainy, and translates it into a trite, feel-good comedy adventure. Just as the Technicolor of the film takes away the rich shadows and replaces them with shiny colors, so too does the film take away those subtle hues of character and replace them with smiling, laughing heroes and unhappy looking villains. Turner manages to impress me when she isn't being directed to deliver over-the-top performances, yet command performers like Vincent Price and Van Heflin, though given an abundance of screen time, are never really given an opportunity to shine. Price's Richilieu is just a mean guy with a french accent. Athos's rich conflict with Lady de Winter is thoroughly underplayed in order to keep this smiling swash-buckling adventure light. And the choice of Frank Morgan (a highly talented comedian) to play the king seals the guarantee that this film has little intention of delivering any level of substance by the close.
George Sidney's Three Musketeers features some of the best swash-buckling I've ever seen on the silver screen and absolutely nothing more. Even with Gene Kelly's amazing physical performances, the film offers very little to inspire a second watching. Were we in the late 1940s, this would have been a fun Friday evening's diversion at the movies, but it is not a film for the ages.
Movie Review: Cheesy, but nostalgically fun...
Summary: 3 Stars
I grew up on this film, so I'll always have soft spot for it. I realize now that some dialogue is trite, the drama over-done, and a few of the situations downright silly. But I still like it. This movie also remains the only version that remains semi-true to Dumas' book, and manages to tell the entire story within 120 or so minutes. It is also notable for two very strong acting performances: Van Heflin as Athos and Lana Turner as Milady. Heflin can seem sleepy at times, but that is largely due to the character: Athos was normally drunk and impassive, and Heflin does a good job of conveying this while giving hints of the 'hidden demons' that emerge later in the film. In spite of later efforts by highly qualified actresses, Lana Turner's Milady remains the definitive interpretation of the character - coy and charming one moment, a vicious tigress the next, while always having the face of an angel. If you're looking for swashbuckling / sword-fighting, there is plenty of that, though sometimes the fights seem to become a showcase for Gene Kelley's athleticism. If you can overlook a few gag-worthy moments, this remains very worthy adaptation of Dumas' novel.Movie Review: ANOTHER MGM SCHIZOID PRODUCTION
Summary: 3 Stars
Previous reviews have gone on at length about the plot, and made comparisons to other productions, so I'm just adding a few thoughts.
1) Yes, Gene Kelly is jaw-droppingly brilliant in his swashbuckling scenes. I don't think I've ever seen anyone top him, including Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Unfortunately, he does have a tendency to smirk at the worst possible times, including June Bug's death scene.
2) As some others have suggested, Lana Turner and Angela Lansbury should
have traded parts, altho Lana's fake remorse scene, done with no make-up
and a modified fright wig, is better than I would have expected from The
Sweater Girl.
3) Did Miss Allyson have it in her contract that she would only wear costumes which included a Peter Pan collar? Her outfits are nearly as
funny as the Musketeers, almost all of which were in various shades of
pink, purple and puce. I've seen drag queens on Halloween who were less
flamboyant!
4) Was Robert Coote ever THAT YOUNG??