The Four Musketeers (1974)

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The Four Musketeers is a 1974 Richard Lester film that follows upon his film of the year before, The Three Musketeers, and covers the second half of Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers. The film starring Oliver Reed, Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Richard Chamberlain and Michael York.

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Plot: During a war between France and the Protestant rebels of La Rochelle, Cardinal Richelieu orders Count de Rochefort to kidnap Constance de Bonancieux. The evil Milady de Winter, who wants revenge on d'Artagnan, seduces him to keep him occupied. He soon discovers her true nature, however, and that she was once in love with Athos, who had supposedly killed her, however, after realizing what she was a criminal. Athos, Porthos, and Aramis rescue Constance from her imprisonment in San Cleux and take her to safety in the convent of Armentieres. Milady sends d'Artagnan poisoned wine along with a note to trick him into thinking that the other musketeers got drunk and imprisoned by a marshal. As he goes to bail them out, he is attacked by Rochefort and his men. Athos, Porthos, and Aramis join the fight, at the end of which Rochefort runs away and one of his men is captured and tortured for information, revealing that Richelieu is going to the Dove Cot Inn, before he drinks the poisoned wine and dies, revealing the trap Milady set for d'Artagnan.

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Athos spies on Richelieu as the cardinal gives Milady the order to persuade the Duke of Buckingham not to send a relieve force to aid the rebels, threatening him with the secret of his love affair with the queen, and to kill him if he does not comply. In return, Milady asks for a death warrant so she can kill d'Artagnan and Constance, and he reluctantly signs one, wording it in a way so that it does not leave any evidence against him. However, Athos takes the death warrant from de Winter and later tells d'Artagnan of the dastardly plot. d'Artagnan sends out his servant Planchet to warn the Duke. In England, Milady asks Buckingham not to help the rebels, but he refuses, so Milady tries to assassinate him, but is captured. Buckingham's servant Felton locks her away in a tower, but she seduces him and convinces him that Buckingham is his enemy. Felton helps her escape and return to France.

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