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Actors: Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Robert Coote, Gig Young, Angela Lansbury, Frank Morgan, Vincent Price, Keenan Wynn
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Three Musketeers (1948) |
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This all-out matinee swashbuckler covers more of the story arc of the Dumas novel than most versions of this story. Young d'Artagnan arrives in Paris wanting to be a musketeer, winds up challenged to a duel to fight three of them, then winds up involved in a plot to recover the Queen's stolen jewels. After that adventure, Milady de Winter seeks revenge as Cardinal Richelieu tries to become the most powerful man in France. Lots of thrilling fencing action, with Gene Kelly bringing his dance skill and natural humor and toughness to the role of the young Gascon.
--Zorikh Lequidre, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Three Musketeers (1948) |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 19th century
Legal/Political Thriller?
Yes
Political Plotlets:
- power struggle between good/bad govt factions
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- money/gems/treasure
Legal Thriller Plotlets:
- finding out whether someone is really guilty
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- spy
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Body type
- ample chest and buttocks (woman)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
- France
Forest?
Yes
Water?
Yes
City?
Yes
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
- dumb rednecks, like Gomer Pyle
Misc setting
- prison
- resort/hotel
- building
- castle
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
- swords
Unusual forms of death
- decapitated
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- None
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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