The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers: Two Films by Richard Lester (Criterion Collection) (4K + Blu-ray) [USA]

[C.C. 95]

Release Date: May 27, 2025
Prices and Links:
Criterion- $48.97 (4k+Blu-ray) , $47.96 (Blu-ray only)
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Director: Richard Lester
Writers: George MacDonald Fraser, Alexandre Dumas père
Starring: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Frank Finlay

• United Kingdom, United States
• 1973 | 1974
• 107 minutes | 106 minutes
• Color
• 1.85:1
• English

Alexandre Dumas’s immortal tale of adventure and camaraderie received perhaps the finest of its numerous screen adaptations with this two-part swashbuckling spectacular from A Hard Day’s Night director Richard Lester. Featuring Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, and Richard Chamberlain as the swaggering swordsmen, who thrust and parry their way through courtly intrigue in seventeenth-century France, The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers are also graced with an all-star supporting cast that includes Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Geraldine Chaplin, and Charlton Heston. Lester’s exuberant epic breathes new life into an oft-told classic through its boisterous slapstick invention, its meticulous attention to period detail, and a sense of pure, unbridled bravado that is thrilling to behold.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES​

• New 4K digital restorations, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
• In the 4K UHD edition: Two 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the films and special features
• Two for One, a new documentary by critic David Cairns
• The Saga of the Musketeers (2002), a two-part documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew members
• The Making of “The Three Musketeers,” a 1973 featurette with behind-the-scenes footage of director Richard Lester
• Trailers
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Stephanie Zacharek

THEATRICAL TRAILERS:

THE THREE MUSKETEERS & THE FOUR MUSKETEERS Revival Trailer:


THE THREE MUSKETEERS Original Theatrical Trailer:


THE FOUR MUSKETEERS Original Theatrical Trailer:

 

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Hope this gets a UK release

 

[C.C. 95]

Hope this gets a UK release

Well, the UK already released these from Studio Canal a few months back.

The only difference- the Criterion has one extra not in the SC versions: Two for One, a new documentary by critic David Cairns
We will have to wait and see if the encoding is in any way different between the two- but cetainly the CC will have used the SC transfer as their source.