Steel rings out in a muddy French courtyard. At dawn, a young Gascon named d’Artagnan barges through the steam of a stable, rapier clinking, ready for a duel. He finds not just a fight, but a future, in the faces of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. This is Richard Lester’s nineteen seventy-three masterpiece, The Three Musketeers, where history is less a lesson and more a playground.
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