Two versions for THE FOUR

Hello. In response to your query about "The Four Musketeers" : two narrations were indeed used for two different markets. According to a (long out of print) study of Richard Lester's movies, the producer, Alexander Salkind, thought that the narration with Frank Finlay used in the British prints would not appeal to American audiences. Finlay was largely unknown in America and so Richard Chamberlain was brought in to re-record the movie's narration for the American market. Chamberlain was well known in the States as a romantic leading man in t.v shows and t.v movies, and as a recognisable character actor in some fairly big budget big screen movies (The Towering Inferno etc). The American prints therefore use his voice-over for purely commercial reasons. The version usually shown in Britain is naturally the Finlay narrated version but the Chamberlain version does occasionally get screened in other English speaking countries. I hope this answers your question.

The video version I have has Finlay's narration; does anyone know if the Chamberlain version is available on video or DVD?

I think the Chamberlain version may have been used for the network TV airings, although for all I know that may have been a totally different edit as was common during the 70s. I recall these films mostly for their airings on TV in the mid to late 70s when they seemed especially popular, perhaps moreso than when originally shown in the theaters.