Dueling Cavaliers: Comparing The Three Musketeers Movies from 1948, 1973-1974, and 1993

Will Shetterly
4 min readFeb 13

This week, I watched three versions of The Three Musketeers: the classic Hollywood 1948 movie starring Gene Kelly, Richard Lester’s 1970s two-parter (The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers) starring Michael York, and Disney’s 1993 take starring Chris O’Donnell. If you only want swashbuckling, you’ll like them all. If you want something…

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