The Four Musketeers

aka The Revenge of Milady

Directed by Richard Lester
Writers: George MacDonald Fraser (screenplay), Alexandre Dumas (novel)
1974

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• Oliver Reed . . . . . . . . . . Athos
  Raquel Welch . . . . . . . . . . Constance de Bonancieux
  Richard Chamberlain . . . . . . . . . . Aramis
  Michael York . . . . . . . . . . D'Artagnan
  Frank Finlay . . . . . . . . . . Porthos
  Christopher Lee . . . . . . . . . . Rochefort
  Geraldine Chaplin . . . . . . . . . . Queen Anne of Austria
  Jean-Pierre Cassel . . . . . . . . . . Louis XIII (as Jean Pierre Cassel)
  Roy Kinnear . . . . . . . . . . Planchet
  Michael Gothard . . . . . . . . . . Felton
  Nicole Calfan . . . . . . . . . . Maid Kitty
  Angel del Pozo . . . . . . . . . . Jussac (as Angel Del Pozo)
  Eduardo Fajardo Eduardo Fajardo
  Simon Ward . . . . . . . . . . Duke of Buckingham
  Faye Dunaway . . . . . . . . . . Milady
  Charlton Heston . . . . . . . . . . Cardinal Richelieu
  Sybil Danning . . . . . . . . . . Eugenie
  Gitty Djamal . . . . . . . . . . Beatrice
  Jack Watson . . . . . . . . . . Busigny
  Bob Todd . . . . . . . . . . Firing Squad Officer
  Tom Buchanan Tom Buchanan . . . . . . . . . . Firing Squad Sergeant
  Leon Greene . . . . . . . . . . Swiss Officer
  Lucy Tiller . . . . . . . . . . Mother Superior
  Norman Chappell . . . . . . . . . . Submarine Inventor
  Richard Adams . . . . . . . . . . Tortured Thug
  Tyrone Cassidy . . . . . . . . . . English Officer
  
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  
  Joss Ackland . . . . . . . . . . D'Artagnan's Father (archive footage) (uncredited)
  Richard Briers . . . . . . . . . . Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
  Gretchen Franklin . . . . . . . . . . D'Artagnan's Mother (archive footage) (uncredited)
  Oliver MacGreevy . . . . . . . . . . Headsman (uncredited)
  
  

• D'Artagnan has become a Musketeer. Protestants hold La Rochelle, and the Queen loves Buckingham, who'll soon send ships to support the rebels. Richelieu enlists Rochefort to kidnap Constance, the Queen's go-between and D'Artagnan's love. The Cardinal uses the wily, amoral Milady de Winter to distract D'Artagnan. But soon, she is D'Artagnan's sworn enemy, and she has an unfortunate history with Athos as well. Milady goes to England to dispatch Buckingham; the Musketeers fight the rebels. Milady, with Rochefort's help, then turns to her personal agenda. Can D'Artagnan save Constance, defeat Rochefort, slip de Winter's ire, and stay free of the Cardinal? All for one, one for all!
  
  Salkind Clause
  
  The film was shot on location in Spain over seventeen weeks. The film was originally intended to be an epic which ran for three hours including an intermission, but during production, it was determined the film could not make its announced release date in that form, so a decision was made to split the longer film into two shorter features, the second part becoming The Four Musketeers.
  
  Though some actors knew of this decision earlier than others, by the time of the Paris premiere all had been informed. This incensed the actors and crew, since they were being paid for one film, and their original contracts made no mention of a second feature, resulting in lawsuits being filed to receive compensation for salaries associated with the sequel.
  
  This led to the Screen Actors Guild requiring all future actors' contracts to include what has become known as the "Salkind clause" (named after producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind), which stipulates that single productions cannot be split into film instalments without prior contractual agreement.
  
  

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