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quick question

posted 16 years ago by fn1564
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When I was younger I used to watch different three musketeers movies and I cannot remember which Three Musketeers movie was my favorite. One of the scenes close to the beginning of the movie shows people getting taking to the guillotine and then I think we are shown D'artagnan who is about to be killed but is spared. Does anybody know which Three Musketeers movie this is?

[–] Blueghost 16 years ago

Are you sure it was a musketeer film? The guillotine wasn't invented until the French Revolution, some 200 years after the Renaisance.

[–] grendelkhan 15 years ago

That sounds more like the Scarlet Pimpernel. There was a version in the early 80's with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour. It was released on video from Live Entertainment, as part of a literary collection, which included the Richard Chamberlin Count of Monte Cristo and Man in the Iron Mask. That could be the source of confusion.

[–] liscarkat-2 9 years ago

"The Three Musketeers" takes place in 1625, not the Renaissance. Yet this, still, is about a century and a half before the guillotine.

[–] louiseculmer 9 years ago

'Renaissance' is a vague term which is interpreted in various ways, but most definitions seem to suggest that it went on into the 17th century.

[–] jlgas 9 years ago

Probably thinking of Carry On Don't Lose Your Head

Mr Frampton, vis-a-vis your rump

[–] TongueFu 9 years ago

Slow answer...

... I'll get back to you.