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The Three Musketeers: Directed by Rowland V. Lee. With Walter Abel, Paul Lukas, Margot Grahame, Heather Angel. Gascon D'Artagnan joins the Musketeers in Paris, battling Porthos, Aramis, and Athos to save France and a lady's honor from Cardinal Richelieu's machinations.
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- Action, Adventure, Romance
- Rowland V. Lee
- 1935-11-01
The Three Musketeers is a 1935 film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Walter Abel, Heather Angel, Ian Keith, Margot Grahame, and Paul Lukas. It is the first English-language talking picture version of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel The Three Musketeers.
His first major film role was as D'Artagnan in RKO Pictures' 1935 The Three Musketeers, and as hyperactive agent Danny Reed in the 1942 musical comedy Holiday Inn, with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. Abel went on to play in more than sixty films, and was a vice president of the Screen Actors' Guild.
Walter Abel. Actor: 13 Rue Madeleine. A familiar character face in movies and television, Walter Abel was a dedicated stage actor who had studied at the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York before moving on to a progression of stage work that culminated in his first appearance on Broadway in the original play "Forbidden" in late 1919.
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For this first American talkie version in 1935, RKO brought in Walter Abel from the Broadway stage. Abel had made three films previous to this, the last an adaptation of the play Liliom (1930), in which he had a small part. After The Three Musketeers, he got leads in several B releases and supporting roles in many major films. Over the decades ...
- Rowland V. Lee, Otto Brower, Edward Donahue
- Walter Abel
D'Artagnan(Walter Abel) arrives at the Luxembourg to duel the three musketeers; Athos(Paul Lukas), Aramis(Onslow Stevens) and Porthos(Moroni Olsen) but in th...
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Walter Abel, Paul Lukas, Moroni Olsen, Ian Keith, Margot Grahame, Heather Angel, Onslow Stevens, Miles Mander; D: Rowland V. Lee; M: Max Steiner. The Three Musketeers ★★ 1935Three swordsmen, loyal to each other, must battle the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu. Generally regarded as the least exciting adaptation of Alexander Dumas' classic tale.
