2h 5min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 20 October 1948 | Color
Director: George Sidney
Stars: Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury, Frank Morgan, Vincent Price, Keenan Wynn, Gig Young, Reginald Owen.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040876/
Watched online. Good print.
Watched for GK's athletic D'Artagnan; the swordplay is dancing here.
As an incarnation of the Dumas novel, this is ok. The plot seems to conform to this summary of the novel, with the major exception that Athos (VH) claims Lady de Winter is his wife.
Lana Turner is always good as a femme fatale (Lady de Winter), even in Technicolor. But this has too much talking and too much time on "romance" with too many couples, and not enough swashbuckling. I'm not a JA fan overall, and her Constance leaves me indifferent. Not a good thing for such a pivotal character.
But the swashbuckling we get is wonderfully athletic... at least GK's stunts are. I'm not convinced he did all his stunts. But marvelous they are, whether he executed them all or not.
MGM, dir. Sidney; 6
