Spectacular and entertaining adventure with a lot of fencing about the four audacious Musketeers and the wicked Milady of Winter. This colorful second installment packs feats, derring do, romance and lavish scenarios. As dashing D'Artagnan goes on to take part of the Musketers under command of Lord Treville. This is the follow-up to former outing with same artistic and technician team. D'Artagnan : Gerard Barray assisted by his servant Planchet : Jean Carmet, along with his friends Musketeers, Athos :Georges Descrieres, Porthos : Bernard Woringer, Aramis : Jacques Toja unite forces to combat the villainous Milady of Winter: Mylene Demongeot. To carry out a merciless vengeance from the previous entry, Milady joins again her nasty allied : the treacherous Rochefort : Guy Delorme, and uncanny Cardinal Richelieu : Daniel Soriano against the Musketeers, King Louis XIII : Guy Trejan and Queen Anne : Francois Christophe. The previous bad guys confront the good guys, The Four Musketeers under the shout : "One for all and all for one".
A nice sequel to The Three Musketeers, shot back to back, being similar to the fist part. It contains thrills, emotion, luxurious palaces, glamorous costumes, a love story between D'Artagnan and Constance, as well as breathtaking sword-play. Gerard Barray giving a perfect D'Artagnan, showing splendidly his swashbuckling skills. While Mylene Demongeot is wonderful as the gorgeous but poisonous Milady of Winter. The motion picture was competently directed by costumer expert Bernard Borderie.
There are several versions based of the famous Alexandre Dumas novel, these are the following ones : 1921 silent rendition by Fred Niblo with Douglas Fairbanks. 1935 by Rowland V Lee with Walter Abel, Paul Lucas. The best version by MGM directed by George Sidney with Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, Gig Young, June Allyson, Vincent Price , Paul Lucas, Frank Morgan. 1973 by Richard Lester with Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Faye Dunaway, Raquel Welch, Frank Finlay. 1993 by Stephen Herek with Charlie Sheen, Chris O'Donnell, Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry, Rebecca De Mornay. 2001 by Peter Hyams with Justin Chambers, Mena Suvari, Tim Roth, Stephen Rea . 2011 by Paul Anderson with Logan Lerman, Orlando Bloom, Matthew McFadyen, among others.
