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| starring = Oliver Reed Charlton Heston Raquel Welch Faye Dunaway Richard Chamberlain Frank Finlay Michael York Christopher Lee | music = Lalo Schifrin | cinematography = David Watkin | editing = John Victor Smith | distributor = 20th Century Fox | released = | runtime = 108 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = | gross = $8,760,000 (US/ Canada)〔Solomon, Aubrey. ''Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series)''. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p233. Please note figures are rentals accruing to distributors and not total gross.〕 }} ''The Four Musketeers'' (also known as ''The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge'') is a 1974 Richard Lester film that is a sequel to ''The Three Musketeers'', and covers the second half of Dumas' novel ''The Three Musketeers''. Fifteen years later, the cast and crew returned to film ''The Return of the Musketeers'', loosely based on Dumas' ''Twenty Years After''. During production on ''The Three Musketeers'', the producers realized that the production was so large that they would not be able to complete the film as it was initially intended (as a roadshow epic with intermission) and make their initially announced release date, so the decision was made to split the project into two films and created ''The Four Musketeers'' to be released six months after the release of the first installment. Most of the actors were incensed that their work on the long shoot was used to make an entirely separate film. All SAG actors' contracts now have what is known as the "Salkind clause", which stipulates how many films are being made. ==Plot== During a war between France and the Protestant rebels of La Rochelle, Cardinal Richelieu orders Count de Rochefort to kidnap Constance Bonancieux. The evil Milady de Winter, who wants revenge on d'Artagnan, seduces him to keep him occupied. D'Artagnan soon discovers her true nature, however, and also that she was once married to Athos, who had supposedly killed her after discovering that she was a branded criminal. Athos, Porthos, and Aramis rescue Constance from imprisonment in Rochefort's abode of Saint Cloud and take her to safety in the convent of Armentieres. De Winter sends d'Artagnan poisoned wine and a note intended to trick him into thinking that the other musketeers have been imprisoned for drunkenness. On his way to bail them out, d'Artagnan is attacked by Rochefort and his men. Athos, Porthos, and Aramis join the fight, and Rochefort flees. One of his men is captured and tortured for information, revealing that Richelieu is going to the Dovecote Inn near La Rochelle, but then drinks the poisoned wine and dies, revealing de Winter's trap. Athos, Porthos, and Aramis proceed to the inn and spy on Richelieu. The Cardinal orders de Winter to threaten the Duke of Buckingham with exposure of his secret affair with the Queen, to discourage him from sending a relief force to aid the rebels; she is to kill the Duke if he does not comply. In return, de Winter asks for a warrant, so she can kill d'Artagnan and Constance. Richelieu reluctantly signs one, wording it in a way that leaves no evidence against himself. After revealing himself to de Winter, Athos takes the death warrant from her and later tells d'Artagnan of the plot. D'Artagnan sends his servant Planchet to warn the Duke. In England, de Winter asks Buckingham not to help the rebels, but he refuses. De Winter tries to assassinate him, but she is captured. Buckingham has his servant Felton lock her away in the Tower of London, but she seduces Felton and convinces him that Buckingham is his enemy. Felton helps her to escape and return to France, then murders Buckingham before Planchet can warn him. Soon after, La Rochelle surrenders. Rochefort and de Winter are intent on killing d'Artagnan and Constance. With a force of guards, they occupy the convent at Armentieres and battle the four musketeers when they arrive. While Rochefort and his men hold the musketeers at bay, de Winter strangles Constance. Athos captures de Winter; D'Artagnan duels Rochefort and kills him with a lunge through the heart. The four musketeers sentence de Winter to death by beheading, and they hire an executioner to carry out the punishment. Afterward, they are arrested by the Cardinal's guards. Richelieu charges d'Artagnan with murder for killing his two most valuable servants, but D'Artagnan shows him the signed death warrant which, due to its ambiguous phrasing, appears to authorize d'Artagnan's actions. Utterly defeated and quite impressed at d'Artagnan's achievement, the cardinal offers him a commission for either him or one of his three friends to become an officer. Athos, Porthos, and Aramis reject it, and d'Artagnan is promoted to Lieutenant of the Musketeers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Four Musketeers (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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