The Three Musketeers (1961 film)

The Three Musketeers
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Bernard Borderie
Written by	Bernard Borderie et Jean-Bernard Luc ^[1]
Based on	The Three Musketeers 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas
Produced by	Films Borderie Les Films Modernes Le Film d'Art Fono Roma
Starring	Gérard Barray Mylène Demongeot Perrette Pradier Georges Descrières
Cinematography	Armand Thirard
Edited by	Christian Gaudin
Music by	Paul Misraki
Distributed by	Pathé Distribution
Release date	November 4, 1961 (1961-11-04) (France)
Running time	186 minutes
Countries	France Italy
Language	French
Box office	$33.5 million^[2]

The Three Musketeers is a 1961 film adaptation of the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It was released in two parts within the same year.^[3]

Plot summary

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Cast

Gérard Barray as d'Artagnan
Mylène Demongeot as Milady de Winter
Perrette Pradier as Constance Bonacieux
Georges Descrières as Athos
Bernard Woringer as Porthos
Jacques Toja as Aramis
Jean Carmet as Planchet
Guy Delorme as the Count De Rochefort
Daniel Sorano as Cardinal Richelieu
Françoise Christoph as ( Queen) Anne of Austria
Robert Berri as M. Bonacieux
Henri Nassiet as M. de Tréville
Guy Tréjan as (King) Louis XIII
Jacques Berthier as the Duke of Buckingham

Production

Semur-en-Auxois, one of the locations

Filming locations included Bois de Boulogne, Château de Guermantes in Seine-et-Marne and Semur-en-Auxois (department Côte-d'Or).

Reception

The Three Musketeers was the sixth most watched movie at the French box office in 1961.^[2]

References

^ "The Queens's Diamonds/The Revenge of Milady (screen writer's homepage)". Archived from the original on 2018-05-05. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
^ ^a ^b French box office for 1961 at Box Office Story
^ "Les Trois Mousquetaires (2 époques) (Bernard Borderie, 1961): on ne présente plus l'œuvre d'Alexandre Dumas, ici adaptée en deux films". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2011-06-16.

External links

The Three Musketeers at IMDb

The d'Artagnan Romances by Alexandre Dumas

Characters

Films

The Three
Musketeers

The Three Musketeers (1916)
Les Trois Mousquetaires (1921)
The Three Musketeers (1921)
The Three Musketeers (1932)
The Three Musketeers (1933)
The Three Musketeers (1935)
The Three Musketeers (1939)
The Three Musketeers (1942)
The Three Musketeers (1946)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
Blades of the Musketeers (1953)
The Three Musketeers (1953)
The Three Musketeers (1961)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
The Three Musketeers (1993)
The Musketeer (2001)
The Three Musketeers (2011)
3 Musketeers (2011)
The Three Musketeers (2013)
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (2023)
The Three Musketeers: Milady (2023)

Twenty Years
After

The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
Musketeers Twenty Years After (1992)

The Vicomte of
Bragelonne

The Iron Mask (1929)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
Uthama Puthiran (1940)
Lady in the Iron Mask (1952)
The Count of Bragelonne (1954)
The King's Prisoner (1954)
Uthama Puthiran (1958)
Le Masque de fer (1962)
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After (1993)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)

Other sequels

At Sword's Point (1952)
The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan (1962)
Revenge of the Musketeers (1994)
The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin (2009)

Animated

The Four Musketeers (1936) Three Blind Mouseketeers (1936) The Three Musketeers (1974) Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004) Barbie and the Three Musketeers (2009) Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds (2021)
Tom and Jerry	The Two Mouseketeers Touché, Pussy Cat! Tom and Chérie Royal Cat Nap

Television

Series

Live-action	The Three Musketeers (1954) The Three Musketeers (1966) The Mind Robber (1968) d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) Young Blades (2005) The Three Musketeers (2009–10) (puppetry) The Musketeers (2014)
Animated	The Three Musketeers (1968) Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds (1981) The Three Musketeers Anime (1987–89) The Return of Dogtanian (1989) Albert the Fifth Musketeer (1993–94)

Films

Live-action	The Three Musketeers (1959) The Three Musketeers (1969) The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) La Femme Musketeer (2004)
Animated	The Three Musketeers (1973) The Man in the Iron Mask (1985) Dogtanian: Special (1985) The Three Musketeers (1986) Dogtanian: One For All and All For One (1995)

Games

Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer
The Three Musketeers (1987 video game)
The Three Musketeers (2006 video game)
The Three Musketeers: One for All!

Musicals

The Three Musketeers (1928)
3 Musketiers

Other
adaptations

The Three Mesquiteers Dog in Boots The Three Must-Get-Theres The Three Mouseketeers (comics) The Three Musketeers (South Korean adaptation) Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (video game)
Khaavren Romances	The Phoenix Guards Five Hundred Years After The Viscount of Adrilankha The Baron of Magister Valley

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