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Esta clásica adoptación de Los Tres Mosqueteros es una estupenda película que se gana el honor de ser considerada una joya clásica. El guion es muy bueno, con una ingeniosa trama que combina elementos de acción, drama, romance y hasta humor de la época. Es una de esas películas antigua que se pueden admirar por su producción, montaje, vestuario, elenco y guion. A pesar de que se pueden notar unas pocas escenas que son claramente fingidas, eso no impide que la película sea admirable. Tiene un magnífico elenco que incluye al muy conocido Vincent Price. La banda sonora puede no ser algo memorable, pero suma bastante que incluyera fragmentos de la popular composición romántica "Romeo And Juliet" de tchaikovsky. Los Tres Mosqueteros (1948) es otra joya que todo cinéfilo o amante del cine clásico tiene la obligación de ver y admirar. Mi calificación final para esta película es un 9/10.
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11/14/23
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Great movie I love it
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01/17/23
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camille l
Les films avec Gene Kelly sont toujours plus durs à regarder lorsque ce dernier ne danse pas et Les Trois Mousquetaires de George Sidney ne déroge malheureusement pas à la règle. Très soigné, des décors aux costumes en passant par la musque et l'interprétation, Les Trois Mousquetaires traîne cependant un peu en longueur et cet assemblage pas original pour un sou de péripéties répétitives finit par lasser bien avant la fin des deux heures. Il y a bien Vincent Price pour cabotiner un peu et Gene Kelly se débrouille plutôt bien dans les scènes musclées, mais cela fait assez peu pour un film qui manque quand même cruellement d'intérêt.
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03/31/23
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Between 2.5 and 3 stars. Cast is spectacular, but the conventional treatment of the action makes this story just the classic 50s adventure story.
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01/25/23
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The Three Musketters 1948
I think that very quickly once the film begins it is easily noticeable that this film looks very pretty in Technolocolr
This film has A very large and well regongized cast of actors who either were well known or became very well known in cinematic history including Gene Kelly as D'Artagnan
Lana Turner as Lady de Winter
June Allyson as Constance Bonaciex
Vincent Price as the cardinal Richelieu
Frank Morgan as King Louis XIII
Angela Lansbury as Queen Anne
This film is Directed by George Sidney. George Sidney did an excellent job
The costumes look so elegant, colorful, and feel like royalty compared to other musketter films. They appear clean and staged rather than believably lived in.
The first sword fight was interesting in that the musketeers fight in a park by trees and water fountains and monuments. We see one of them jump over each other climb and run and jump off trees. It is an open area with plenty of places to go. The action includes some crazy choreography and stunts which look amazing and fantastic but they don't look necessarily believable that they would happen in reality in a fight.
It has a different vibe from the other Musketeer films. It has slap stick comedy, the tragedy is never really seen but expressed through shadows, blood, or told by people through expressions and tricks to avoid seeing any blood.
The D'Aragnan's fight towards the end was turned into a Warner Brothers slap stick fight.
I was surprised to see a young Angela Lansbury portray Queen Anne. I was not counting on that going into this film.
We also see Frank Morgan who played the the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz portray King Louis the XIII in this film.
I like the cuts for the action scenes. It gives the impression of quickness and is able to keep the audiences attention.
I like the low angles in this film when we see Vincent Price as the Cardinal Richelieu as the villain. It gives this impression of power, and villainy.
I like the silhouettes as the musketeers are seen riding on their horses leaving for England to try and retrieve the diamonds for the queen.
The chase and fight to get towards England you can tell when they are by the ocean that they are in California.
Some of the stunts and jumping onto the horses seem unbelievable and fantasy like in a cartoon way that don's seem believable.
This film is able to maintain a good passà (C) as it is constantly on the move and does a good job on the cuts to show different perspectives of the scene.
I think that it does a good job on casting, stunt work, sets, lighting, and costumes look elegant and idealized even if not accurate depictions.
The action and poses remind me of Errol Flynn characteristics to a film.
The lighting and shadows reminds me of the look I may see in a early Disney film like Snow White, Pinocchio, or Dumbo.
I was not satisfied by the results to the ending of this film since I felt like the Cardinal Richelleu portrayed by Vincent Price was still in power capable of using his powers for wrong.
I was surprised by how little we saw of Cardinal Richelleu in this film. It is very little.
Outside of the sets when it came to the landscapes near the ocean or wide open areas it became easy to identify that they were not of France but shot in California based upon the geography of the rocks, trees, and cliffs.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
01/25/23
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There have been many many film versions of this classic tale by French author Alexandre Dumas, the earliest dating back as far as 1903. This MGM production is probably one of the most remembered adaptations alongside the Doug Fairbanks 1921, black and white silent film.
As I'm sure you all know, the tale follows a young D'Artagnan (Gene Kelly) as he travels to Paris so he can attempt to become a Musketeer for the King, the King's elite guard or soldier. On his journeys in Paris he bumps into the famous trio of Musketeers one by one and ends up challenging them. Of course after some swordplay and fisticuffs with Cardinal Richelieu's men they all become firm friends. What follows are the various missions and scrapes the foursome get into trying to stop Richelieu tricking the King of France into war with Great Britain. This involves racing to England to retrieve some precious jewels the Queen of France gave away to the English Prime Minister, the Duke of Buckingham. D'Artagnan avoiding Richelieu's temptations of becoming one of his guards whilst trying to find his love Constance, who has been abducted by Richelieu in order to bribe him into his service. All the while trying to also avoid the temptations of Milady de Winter who eventually tries to assassinate the young cocky Musketeer.
There is obviously a little more to it than that but I really don't think I need to explain this well known story. Would it be a bit bold of me to claim this is the Gene Kelly version of the tale? that Kelly is the only reason to watch this movie? Well ya of course, because he isn't the sole driving force here, although I will admit I thought he would be. But there is no doubt Kelly is the main attraction with this movie, star power wise. Knowing how athletic and likable the guy is its hard not to think this. On this front you are not disappointed, Kelly leaps and bounds around the fake sets like a grasshopper on a sugar rush. Even today its still impressive how awesome and daring he was when it came to stunts. I presume he did the stunts anyway, hard to tell but I'm pretty sure he did. Of course all this might come across as a tad quaint these days but remember everything you see is real, the balancing acts, the leaps, the rolls, the rope swinging and of course the frenetic sword fighting.
There is one long shot where D'Artagnan arrives at a small house, jumps onto a stone wall, then jumps onto the water-wheel, rides it until he is able to jump onto a tree branch with a bit of acrobatics, and finally swings into the house through the top window. OK there is a small cut before he jumps through the window so we can see a reaction shot from Kelly, but its still a perfect example of how fit, fearless and audacious these guys were. Admittedly I'm not sure it was all Kelly, but still impressive, as he swung through the window the camera followed right behind him, great shot.
To this degree everybody is impressive, the stunt guys take their hits well and thrown themselves across tables like pros. All the main cast do join in on the fights but the focus is often clearly on Kelly who revels in the danger. Most of the cast I am unaware of I will be honest but the inclusion of Vincent Price as Richelieu was genius casting, I don't even have to tell you how good he is in this evil sinister role. In all honesty the only other cast member I knew of was Angela Lansbury as Queen Anne (a smallish role), one of the first times I've actually seen her as a young woman!
Talking about the action, it was very clear to me how much this movie influenced following adaptations. Watching the sword fighting sequences, it dawned on me how similar these sequences appeared to Richard Lester's 1973/1974 movies. I thought to myself, have I seen this before? this style all looks very familiar. Watching the direction, pace and general visual appearance of these sequences at every turn, I am sure Lester copied this movie. I realise both movies are covering the same story so similarities are bound to happen but seriously, I was really shocked at how similar this movie and Lester's movies are when it came to the fight scenes. The actors even seem to move in the same way, as though they had been trained by the same guy.
What I did find slightly amusing was something I actually found out whilst watching a Bluray extra about another classic movie (an Errol Flynn one). Apparently, back in those days they used to paint the scenery so it looked perfect, in other words if the grass wasn't green enough, or the trees weren't red enough, they would spray paint them to get the desired effect. This is so so obvious watching this movie, most of the limited use of actual real outdoor locations (California) are so vividly coloured, overly so. They even, clearly, coloured the water for one small scene, it looks quite toxic actually, not right at all.
As for the sets, well they are undeniably lavish and gorgeous looking as were all sets back then. Whether or not everything is period accurate I don't know, but it sure as hell looks good and authentic to me. Most royal rooms look suitably regal and exquisite, dripping in bold colours and coats of arms. The regular peasant abodes are your standard Tudor-esque/olde worlde English pub look with timber frames, interior timber beams, lots of used candles and cozy open fires galore. Exterior sets are quite realistic looking to a degree, you can tell they are sets but they are charming without a doubt, everything looks so whimsical and angelic. Naturally the costumes and props are all just as glorious as everything else, bright, bold, colourful, and with a hint of pantomime about it all. I should also add that the Musketeer attire (the blue sash) looks almost identical to the Musketeer attire in Lester's movies.
Visually its very pleasing to the eye, I think most would agree with that and would have guessed that from the start. The issue I had was the pacing, it tended to become rather dull when there wasn't any sword fighting going on, a bit smoochy in places, lots of exposition. Then at times things whizz by very quickly, one minute we're in France, then at sea, then England, then back in France, characters zoom about the countryside quicker than you can say fromage. The sequences showing us France at war with Great Britain are basically a few shots of a small group of soldiers on a dark, rainy set which lasts less than a minute.
This is a hard one to judge really, I did enjoy it, but not as much as I had hoped for. I'll be honest, the light-hearted comedy actually let it down for me, it was too stupid, too slapsticky, and seeing Kelly mug for the camera was kinda lame. To be frank I don't think Kelly was the best choice for the leading role, sure he's got the athletic ability, but he hasn't quite got the acting chops, and his comic timing is hokey. The other three Musketeer actors were much better than Kelly, in fact everyone was much better than Kelly, Kelly was too much of a clown (forgive me!). I just didn't get a real rush from anything on screen, I didn't really feel emotionally engaged or intrigued because the movie is a bit too lovey dovey and fanciful. I had a feeling it would be of course, seeing as Kelly was in the lead role. Thusly my favourite Musketeer movie/s must still remain the two Richard Lester epics (not counting the third).
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
01/22/23
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