Directed by:
Allan DwanCinematography:
J. Peverell MarleyCast:
Don Ameche, Harry Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Al Ritz, Binnie Barnes, Gloria Stuart, Pauline Moore, Joseph Schildkraut, John Carradine, Lionel Atwill, Miles Mander (more)Plots(1)
Again returning to one his favorite tales, Alexandre Dumas' THE THREE MUSKETEERS, Allan Dwan directs the Ritz Brothers in a generally faithful musical comedy version of the classic, which stars Don Ameche as D'Artagnan.The young D'Artagnan journeys from his native Gascony to join the King's musketeers in Paris. Enroute, he is insulted by three of their number, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. When they offer satisfaction, he schedules a duel with each of them, but the musketeers get drunk while waiting, and the Ritz Brothers steal their clothes. When D'Artagnan arrives to duel, he and the Ritz Brothers are attacked by the guardsmen of Cardinal Richelieu (Miles Mander), whom they successfully fight off. Later that night, D'Artagnan encounters Lady Constance (Pauline Moore) while she is accompanying the Queen (Gloria Stuart) to a romantic assignation with the Duke of Buckingham (Lester Matthews), the enemy of the French. Her presenation of a brooch to her lover is seen by inkeeper Naveau, one of Richelieu's spies. The Cardinal hopes to prove the Queen's disloyalty by dispatching Milady DeWinter (Binnie Barnes) to steal it from Buckingham. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Don Ameche
USA
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
Trading Places (1983)
Midnight (1939)
Harry Ritz
USA
Best movies:
Silent Movie (1976)
The Gorilla (1939)
Jimmy Ritz
USA
Best movies:
The Gorilla (1939)
Al Ritz
USA
Best movies:
The Gorilla (1939)
Binnie Barnes
UK
Best movies:
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Holiday (1938)
Frontier Marshal (1939)
Gloria Stuart
USA
Best movies:
Titanic (1997)
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)
Pauline Moore
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Love Is News (1937)
Frankenstein (1931)
Joseph Schildkraut
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
The Rains Came (1939)
John Carradine
USA
Best movies:
Captains Courageous (1937)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Lionel Atwill
UK
Best movies:
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Captain Blood (1935)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Miles Mander
UK
Best movies:
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Madame Curie (1943)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Douglass Dumbrille
Canada
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Russell Hicks
USA
Best movies:
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Lester Matthews
UK
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Egon Brecher
Austria-Hungary
Moroni Olsen
USA
Best movies:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Gino Corrado
Italy
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Fury (1936)
Sunrise (1927)
June Storey
Canada
Best movies:
The Strange Woman (1946)
Too Late for Tears (1949)
In Old Chicago (1937)
Gregory Gaye
Russia
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
Ninotchka (1939)
Test Pilot (1938)