''Blades of the Musketeers'' is a 1953 American film adaptation of the 1844 novel ''
The Three Musketeers
''The Three Musketeers'' (french: Les Trois Mousquetaires, links=no, ) is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight ...
'' for
Hal Roach Studios.
It was originally shot as an episode of the 1950 TV series ''
Magnavox Theater''.
It was also known as Sword of D'artagnan.
Cast
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Robert Clarke
Robert Irby Clarke (June 1, 1920 – June 11, 2005) was an American actor best known for his cult classic science fiction films of the 1950s.
Early life
Clarke was born and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He decided at an early age that h ...
as D'Artagnan
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John Hubbard as Athos
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Mel Archer as Portos
*Keith Richards as Aramis
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Paul Cavanagh as
Cardinal Richelieu
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Don Beddoe
Donald Theophilus Beddoe (July 1, 1903 – January 19, 1991) was an American character actor.
Early years
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Beddoe was the son of Dan Beddoe, a Welsh classical singer, and his wife Mary. He graduated from the ...
as
King Louis XIII
Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ...
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Marjorie Lord
Marjorie Lord (née Wollenberg; July 26, 1918 – November 28, 2015) was an American television and film actress. She played Kathy "Clancy" O'Hara Williams, opposite Danny Thomas's character on ''The Danny Thomas Show'' (also known as ''Make ...
as Queen
Anne of Austria
Anne of Austria (french: Anne d'Autriche, italic=no, es, Ana María Mauricia, italic=no; 22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was an infanta of Spain who became Queen of France as the wife of King Louis XIII from their marriage in 1615 un ...
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Lyn Thomas
Lyn Thomas (born Jacqueline Thomas; 1929–2004) was an American stage, television and film actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of ...
as Constance
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Kristine Miller as Lady DeWinter
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Charles Lang
Charles Bryant Lang Jr., A.S.C. (March 27, 1902, Bluff, Utah – April 3, 1998, Santa Monica, California[Peter Mamakos
Peter Mamakos (December 14, 1918 – April 27, 2008) was an American film and television actor.
Early life
Mamakos was of Greek descent. Mamakos' father owned Pilgrim restaurants in New England. Mamakos was sent to California to scout lo ...](_blank)
as Rochefort
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James Craven as De Treville
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Byron Foulger
Byron Kay Foulger (August 27, 1898 – April 4, 1970) was an American character actor who over a 50-year career performed in hundreds of stage, film, and television productions.
Early years
Born in Ogden, Utah, Byron was the second of four ...
as Du Verges
Production
Budd Boetticher says Hal Roach called him saying he wanted to adapt ''The Three Musketeers'' as an hour picture for television to be shot over three days. Boetticher agreed to direct it for $500 a day and says it took three and a half days. He says a year later the film was released theatrically.
Another report says the film was shot in four days.
References
External links
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''Blades of the Musketeers''at Allmovie
''Blades of the Musketeers''at Letterbox DVD
''Sword of D'artagnan''at BFI
{{The Three Musketeers
1953 films
American drama television films
Films directed by Budd Boetticher
1950s American films
Cultural depictions of Cardinal Richelieu
Cultural depictions of Louis XIII
Cultural depictions of Anne of Austria