The Three Musketeers (1939 film)

1939 film by Allan Dwan

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The Three Musketeers

Directed by	Alan Dwan
Screenplay by	William A. Drake M. M. Musselman Sam Hellman Ray Golden (special material) Sid Kuller (special material)
Based on	The Three Musketeers 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas
Produced by	Raymond Griffith (associate producer)
Starring	Don Ameche The Ritz Brothers
Cinematography	Peverell Marley
Edited by	Jack Dennis
Music by	David Buttolph Samuel Pokrass
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	February 17, 1939 (1939-02-17)
Running time	73 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Three Musketeers is a 1939 musical comedy film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel The Three Musketeers directed by Alan Dwan and starring Don Ameche as d'Artagnan, with the Ritz Brothers as his cowardly helpers. While the film can be found online, it did have an original copyright notice and renewal.

Plot

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Cast

Don Ameche as d'Artagnan
Ritz Brothers as Three Lackeys
Binnie Barnes as Milady de Winter
Gloria Stuart as Queen Anne
Pauline Moore as Lady Constance
Joseph Schildkraut as King Louis XIII
John Carradine as Naveau
Lionel Atwill as De Rochefort
Miles Mander as Cardinal Richelieu
Douglass Dumbrille as Athos (as Douglas Dumbrille)
John 'Dusty' King as Aramis (as John King)
Russell Hicks as Porthos
Gregory Gaye as Vitray
Lester Matthews as Duke of Buckingham
Egon Brecher as Landlord
Moroni Olsen as Bailiff
Georges Renavent as Captain Fageon
C. Montague Shaw as Ship Captain (as Montague Shaw)

Songs

Music: Samuel Pokrass, lyrics: Walter Bullock.

d'Artagnan song (Vara-vara-vara), Don Ameche.
Chicken Soup, Ritz Brothers.
Voila, Ritz Brothers.
My Lady, Don Ameche.

Reception

Frank Nugent, critic for New York Times, wrote, "That isn't a buzzing in your ears you've been hearing; it's Dumas, fils, spinning in his grave as the Ritz Brothers play his 'Three Musketeers' ... It seems ironic that Mr. Zanuck's first attempt to deal reverently with a classic—in every respect but the Ritzes' share in it—should be impeded by its very reverence to the classic. The trouble, it appears, is that his burlesques are too serious and that his serious efforts are too often burlesques."

In the Leave it to Beaver episode "The Book Report" (1963), young Beaver Cleaver gets in trouble at school when he is assigned to write a book report about the Dumas novel, but instead of actually doing his homework and reading it, just watches the movie on television and bases his report on the film's comedic scenes and Ritz Brothers' zany antics.

References

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Library of Congress. 1939. p. 101. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
"Catalog of Copyright Entries - Renewals". Catalog of Copyright Entries.musical Compositions. Library of Congress: 99. 1966. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
Frank S. Nugent (February 18, 1939). "The Screen; Dumas's 'Three Musketeers' Falls Afoul the Ritzes at the Roxy--'Off the Record' at the Strand". The New York Times.

External links

The Three Musketeers at IMDb
The Three Musketeers at the TCM Movie Database
The Three Musketeers at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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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

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