The Return of the Musketeers (1989) on Netflix
PG19891h 42mActionAdventureComedy
In 1649, Cardinal Mazarin hires the penniless D'Artagnan to round up Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Porthos accepts, while Athos and Aramis secretly serve the imprisoned Duke of Beaufort.
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When Oliver Cromwell's forces overthrow King Charles I in England, Cardinal Mazarin fears that French subjects may rebel too. France is ruled by Queen Anne and Mazarin for the young Louis XIV. They jail the Duke of Beaufort, who leads the people's party known as the Fronde, and the country splits into factions. Mazarin calls on the impoverished D'Artagnan to gather Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Porthos, tired of his wealth and hoping for a title, joins; Athos, busy raising his son Raoul, and Aramis, an abbé, refuse and aid Beaufort in secret. Justine de Winter, Milady de Winter's daughter, wants revenge on the musketeers for her mother's death. Mazarin sends D'Artagnan and Porthos to stop Beaufort from escaping.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
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- Kim Cattrall missed Pan Am Flight 103, destroyed by a bomb over Lockerbie, because while in London dubbing the film in December 1988 she changed her New York flight by 45 minutes to buy a teapot for her mother.
- After a six-year legal battle, Roy Kinnear's widow was awarded £650,000 in damages from the production company Falconfilms, made up of producer Pierre Spengler and director Richard Lester, and a court later ruled the hospital 60% liable and ordered it to pay 60% of that figure.
- Charlton Heston hoped to reprise Cardinal Richelieu from the earlier Musketeers films, but the cardinal had died years before the new film's events; he let the filmmakers use a portrait of Richelieu bearing his likeness on condition he was given the painting when shooting ended.
- Director Richard Lester said the film's two main problems were a lack of money and the Salkinds' refusal to let him use footage from his first two Musketeers films, which he called "the hole beneath the water line".
- After Roy Kinnear died from a heart attack brought on by his injuries, his role was completed using a body double filmed from the rear, with his lines dubbed in by a voice artist.
- Screenwriter George MacDonald Fraser pointed out that the film shows Charles I playing golf, a detail he said was true: the king had been playing golf just before he was captured.
