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With Kelly Sheridan, Tim Curry, Kira Tozer, Willow Johnson. Its all for one and one for all in this actionfilled adventure as Barbie. Barbie shows that if you are kind, clever and brave, anything is possible in this tale of Clara and her amazing Nutcracker, who set off on an adventure to find the. Alexandre Dumass The Three Musketeers, currently enjoying a highbudget BBC adaptation, has seen plenty of film and TV versions. Anne Billson picks the. Complete listing by date of reviews of action figures, collectibles and toys. Includes detailed photos and grades to help your purchase decisions The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review Index of All Titles AB. The Return of the Musketeers is a 1989 film adaptation loosely based on the novel Twenty Years After 1845 by Alexandre Dumas. It is the third Musketeers film. It really is the definition of a thumping good read. More surprising is how so many screenwriters have decided their own plotting and characterisation skills are superior to those of Dumas and his collaborator, August Maquet, even above and beyond the inevitable changes necessary for any screen adaptation. The current. BBCseries, for example, is not the first adaptation to kill off DArtagnans father this might give our hero more obvious Hollywood style motivation than the one leading to the first skirmish in the book Rochefort laughing at DArtagnans horse but it also sacrifices a wonderfully succinct way of establishing the protagonists background, pride and impulsiveness, not to mention his youth. DArtagnan is just a teenager when the book begins, and while the musketeers have often been played by middle aged actors, theyre barely older than he is, with only Athos over 3. This, with a perennial student like shortage of cash, goes a long way towards explaining if not excusing their preoccupation with brawling, boozing and womanising, often with other peoples wives. I was lucky enough to be inculcated into musketeer fandom byone of the best TV adaptations, broadcast in 1. BBCs classic Sunday serial, which kicked off with a blast of Berliozs March to the Scaffold. A young Jeremy Brett played DArtagnan, Brian Blessed was the perfect Porthos, and Mary Peach tragically underused by the British film industry an unforgettable Milady de Winter. I never forgot her, anyway her vivid performance started me off on a lifelong obsession with one of literatures most delicious femmes fatales, a blonde temptress whose summarily brutal treatment at the hands of her first husband none other than Athos must surely go a long way towards explaining if not excusing her subsequent wickedness. Her methodical five day seduction of the Puritan jailer, John Felton, is a thrilling, chilling depiction of evil at its most manipulative. Little wonder there have been several attempts to tell the story from her perspective, including a 1. Italian film called Milady and the Musketeers, and a 2. French telefilm starring veteran exhibitionist Arielle Dombasle. By the time 3. 8 year old Douglas Fairbanks played DArtagnan in Fred Niblos 1. The Three Musketeers, including one by George Mlis that has since been lost. Niblos film covered only the first half of the book, a deficiency made good that same year in France, where Henri Diamant Bergers 1. Milady looking like a man in drag and not, I suspect, a nod to one of the characters real life historical counterparts having been the transvestite diplomat and spy, the Chevalier don. You might have expected Hollywood to make a pigs ear out of the Dumas classic, but George Sidneys colourful MGM romp 1. Gene Kelly bounces all over the place as DArtagnan, and the initially odd seeming conflation of his lady love June Allyson with the jailer Felton ultimately kills two birds with one stone. Vincent Price plays that well known ailurophile, Cardinal Richelieu, with a cat in his lap at the time of the Cardinals death in 1. Lana Turner is absolutely luscious as Milady. READ The Musketeers On set with Peter Capaldi and Vinnie Jones The best film version, most musketeer completists agree, is Richard Lesters diptych The Three Musketeers 1. The Four Musketeers 1. George Mac. Donald Fraser, and originally conceived as a vehicle for The Beatles. A Spark At Darkest Night Movie Trailers. It was shot as a single film but released as two separate features by producers Ilya and Alexander Salkind, which came as a surprise to actors who has signed up and presumably been paid for just the one movie, triggering lawsuits and adding a Salkind Clause to SAG contracts so that trick couldnt be played again. Theres not a weak link in the all star cast, with Charlton Heston a wily Richelieu, Faye Dunaway on top icy form as Milady, Oliver Reed as a brooding Athos, and Raquel Welch, in a career best turn, as a comically bumbling Constance Bonacieux. Lester stuffed it full of terrific slapstick set pieces critics who complained about the humour had evidently not read the book and fight scenes brilliantly choreographed bythe great William Hobbs, culminating in an extraordinary duel to the death between DArtagnan Michael York, never better and his archenemy Rochefort Christopher Lee. Also contributing, to hilarious effect, was Roy Kinnear as DArtagnans servant Planchet. Fifteen years later, the actors tragic death after a riding accident on the set of The Return of the Musketeers, the same creative teams adaptation of Twenty Years After, would cast a sad pall over that production, though the movie is still worth seeking out. The BBC, incidentally, had already adapted Dumas sequel for television in 1. The Further Adventures of the Musketeers, with Jeremy Brett replaced as DArtagnan by Joss Ackland, and Miladys vengeful son played by Michael Gothard who would go on to play John Felton in Lesters The Four Musketeers. One of the most delightful features of Lesters musketeer films is the constant muttering by servants for example, grumbling that the occupant of the sedan chair theyre carrying has put on weight, reminding us that these aristocrats and warriors to whose stories we thrill are supported by a vast but usually invisible network of abused underlings. In the book, the musketeers valets are almost as well characterised as their masters, and provide many a comic subplot French director Andr Hunebelle directed two adaptations in which the servants took centre stage the celebrated French comic actor Bourvil played Planchet in 1. Les Quatre Charlots, as the valets, propped up a quartet of deadbeat musketeers in a slapstick parody of the tale. More recent versions both English and French have been marred by a tendency to meddle too much with Dumas winning formula, miscasting Charlie Sheen as Aramis and trendy directing tics that rapidly look dated. But the story is evergreen, and can take repeated pummelling. It has survived recycling as the splendid kids cartoon. Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds in which Milady is a black cat and being repurposed for Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. It has even survived being pillaged for an ugly computer animated Barbie film. In the meantime, Im still dreaming of Garth Marenghis Three Musketeers, with Richard Ayoade, Matt Berry and Matthew Holness in the title roles. Make it so, please. IN PICTURES Hollywood The golden year of 1.