What if The Three Musketeers had a baby with Looney Tunes and zero budget?
A stylish comedy swashbuckler mixing romance, masterful swordplay, political treachery, and 20th-Century pratfalls in 17th-Century France, this film was a pilot for an unrealized series.
Acting
René Auberjonois commits fully to ridiculous.
Practical Effects
Actual swordwork mixed with deliberate slapstick.
Director
Gary Nelson
René Auberjonois
Panache
David Healy
Donat
Charles Frank
Alain
Charles Siebert
Rochefort
John Doucette
Treville
Amy Irving
Anne
Joseph Ruskin
Cardinal Richelieu
Liam Dunn
M. Durant / Pere Joseph
Peggy Walton-Walker
Laval
Michael O'Keefe
Horseman
Marjorie Battles
Chevreuse
Lisa Eilbacher
Lisa
Judith Brown
Duchess Montvallier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was René Auberjonois's first leading role after M*A*S*H, and he reportedly kept the ridiculous mustache for weeks after shooting ended.
ABC aired this once on a Saturday night opposite a Muhammad Ali fight, which explains literally everything about its ratings.
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