The Three Musketeers

In 1625 France, country bumpkin D’Artagnan hopes to join the king’s elite musketeers in Paris. After proving himself with brilliant swordsmanship in duels against three musketeers, he is duly admitted to the ranks. He soon becomes the leader of the gang of four sworn to challenge the machinations of Cardinal Richelieu. Along the way, D’Artagnan makes a deadly enemy of Richelieu’s confederate, the artful and nefarious Countess de Winter, once he learns of her shady past … This Dumas adaptation, with its ironic undertones and colourised content, goes from tumultuous farce, owing a blatant debt to the 1921 silent film version starring Douglas Fairbanks, to a drama with tragic touches. The Technicolor process plays its role, as the effeminate, candy-coloured full military dress of the early scenes gives way in the course of the story to powerful, manly fighting gear in dark brown leather. In Lady de Winter’s camp, on the other hand, chromatic continuity is the order of the day, with the only superficially flawless Milady and her entourage enrobed almost entirely in green, the colour that has, since the silent era, stood for disgust, avarice and perfidy.

details

  • Runtime

    126 min
  • Country

    United States
  • Year of Presentation

    2015
  • Year of Production

    1948
  • Director

    George Sidney
  • Cast

    Lena Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson
  • Production Company

  • Berlinale Section

    Retrospective
  • Berlinale Category

    Feature Film

Biography George Sidney

George Sidney (October 4, 1916 - May 5, 2002) was an American director and film producer. He was President of the Directors Guild of America from 1951 to 1959 and from 1961 to 1967. He came from an acting family. His uncle George Sidney and his three wives Lillian Burns, Jane Adler and Corinne Cole were also actors.
His most famous works include Holidays in Hollywood (1945, with Frank Sinatra), The Three Musketeers (1948, with Gene Kelly) and Great Nights in Las Vegas (1964, with Elvis Presley). In 1958 he received the Golden Globe in the category Best World Entertainment Through Musical Films.
Sidney died of cancer.
source: wikipedia.org

Filmography George Sidney

1951 Show Boat | 1952 Scaramouche | 1956 The Eddy Duchin Story | 1960 Pepe | 1964 Viva Las Vegas

Biography Gene Kelly

Gene Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor of film, stage, and television, singer, film director, producer, and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likable characters that he played on screen. His many innovations transformed the Hollywood musical, and he is credited with almost single-handedly making the ballet form commercially acceptable to film audiences.
Kelly received an Academy Honorary Award in 1952 for his career achievements, the same year An American in Paris won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. He later received lifetime achievement awards in the Kennedy Center Honors (1982), and from the Screen Actors Guild and American Film Institute. In 1999, the American Film Institute also numbered him 15th in their Greatest Male Stars of Classic Hollywood cinema list.
source: wikipedia.org