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The Three Musketeers

Runtime:
126 min.
Year of Production:
1948
Country:
USA
Director:
Cast:
Lena Turner

June Allyson
Production Company:
Berlinale Section:
Retrospective
Berlinale Category:
Feature Film

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.

BIOGRAFIE 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

FILMOGRAFIE George Sidney (selection)

1964 Viva Las Vegas  1960 Pepe  1956 The Eddy Duchin Story  1952 Scaramouche  1951 Show Boat  1948 The Three Musketeers 

George Sidney @ IMDb
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