The UK branch of StudioCanal (formerly Optimum Home Entertainment) is set to release on Blu-ray two classic films directed by Richard Lester:
The Three Musketeers (1973) and
The Four Musketeers (1974), starring Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Christopher Lee, Michael York, Frank Finlay, Geraldine Chaplin, and Faye Dunaway. Both films have been digitally restored. Street date is October 3.
The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers is a faithful adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel with belly laughs a-plenty and endless swashbuckling. In 17th Century Paris, young, naïve and energetic D'Artagnan leaves home to seek his fortune as a swordsman. He soon makes friends with the three musketeers: world-weary Athos, comically arrogant Porthos and chivalric Aramis. Their enemy is aristocratic schemer Cardinal Richelieu, who plots to prove the infidelity of the Queen to King Louis XIII to increase his own power.
The Four Musketeers
With D'Artagnan now officially enrolled in the king's service, his army besieges the rebels at La Rochelle and Richelieu is determined to prevent any meddling by the English before the city falls. He dispatches Milady de Winter to London with orders to assassinate Buckingham if necessary. But she has a price — carte blanche to dispose of D'Artagnan and "the slut Bonacieux" as she sees fit. Our heroes, in between dodging musket balls at La Rochelle, must once again outwit the Cardinal's henchmen to save the day. But this time the stakes are higher. And tragedy is in the offing.