The Fifth Musketeer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[willard]

Olivia de Havilland received a "special guest star" credit.

[kristina]

Second of two late 1970s filmed adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later", with the first being The Man in the Iron Mask (1977).

[lonnie]

Costume Designer Tony Pueo created more than one thousand six hundred costumes for this movie. Amongst them were the elegant, aristocratic garments created for the movie's stars, including eleven regal gowns for Sylvia Kristel, eight sultry creations for Ursula Andress, sixteen wardrobe changes for Beau Bridges for both of his roles, and four each for Sir Rex Harrison and the Musketeers. Sparing little money to duplicate the decadence of that era, Pueo chose the world's finest fabrics for his gowns, including raw silks, brocades, and satins. Pueo also edged them in delicate three hundred-year-old embroidery, and created special jewelry that could easily pass for precious heirlooms.

[alyssa]

Director Ken Annakin and Cinematographer Jack Cardiff died on April 22, 2009.

[gerald]

Bernard Bresslaw and Sylvia Kristel were dubbed.

[marc]

In an effort to realistically capture the opulence and grandeur of eighteenth century French court life, Producers Heinz Lazek and Ted Richmond were fortunate to gain access to many of the most picturesque castles, palaces, and verdent forests in and around Vienna, Austria, where the entire production was filmed.

[brent]

D'Artagnan was portrayed by Cornel Wilde in this movie and was the latest of many screen appearances for one of the most popular heroes of all time. First, beginning in 1915, D'Artagnan was portrayed in several early Biograph one and two-reelers. D'Artagnan made a major screen debut in the first lavish version of The Three Musketeers (1921) with Douglas Fairbanks in the role. Fairbanks also returned to the part in the initial screen version of The Man in the Iron Mask (1928). Walter Abel portrayed the first D'Artagnan in a movie with sound in The Three Musketeers (1935), and a short time afterward, Don Ameche had filled the adventurer's boots in the book's second re-adaptation, The Three Musketeers (1939), a movie that featured The Ritz Brothers. The production notes for this movie stated: "But Cornel Wilde probably brings the greatest authority to the character as a skillful fencer, who, at an early age, won National Fencing Championship titles and even landed himself a position on the U.S. Olympic Games Fencing Team,"

[sophie]

During filming, Sylvia Kristel and Ian McShane began a tumultuous love affair, which lasted for almost five years.

[lynn]

Some scenes were shot in Schloss Laxenburg, a castle situated twenty-four kilometers (fifteen miles) south of Vienna, Austria; Burg Liechenstein, a medieval fortress built in 1165; Burg Kreuzenstein, a fortress of Roman origin; and Vienna's Votivkirche, an elaborate gothic church built on the site of an attempted assassination against Emperor Franz Josef in 1853, and was presently, at the time this movie was made, an Austrian Hall of Fame.

[lena]

Cornel Wilde, veteran fencer and actor in this movie, commented on the action scenes and noted: "Actually, they represent some of the most exciting scenes in which I have ever appeared."

[kim]

The movie marked Alan Hale, Jr.'s third and final portrayal of Porthos in a movie after inheriting the role from his father, Alan Hale, who had originated the merry character in The Man in the Iron Mask (1939). Hale, Jr. played Porthos, Jr. in At Sword's Point (1952), and then portrayed Porthos for the second time in Lady in the Iron Mask (1952).

[charlie]

The movie was cast with two sex symbols of the silver screen: Sylvia Kristel and Ursula Andress.

[sara]

Schonbrunn Palace represents Paris' Louvre and Fontainbleau, as well as the King's bedchamber, Marie-Therese's bedroom-anteroom, and the Royal Dining Room. The palace, with its exquisite wood carvings, tapestries, and art work, was constructed by Emperor Joseph I about 1700 and renovated by Queen Marie-Therese in 1740. Then in 1805, Napoléon Bonaparte used the palace for his headquarters. The grand ballrooms were still the settings for formal social events and state functions and were open during the day for public viewing.

[stephanie]

Alan Hale, Jr. plays Porthos, the same musketeer played by his father Alan Hale in The Man in the Iron Mask (1939), of which this movie is a direct remake, the earlier movie's screenplay is credited along with the Dumas novel as source material. Furthermore, in At Sword's Point (1952), a Hollywood-concocted sequel to Dumas' novel "The Three Musketeers", Hale played the son of Porthos, while this movie's D'Artagnan, Cornel Wilde, had the role of D'Artagnan's son.

[toni]

The halls and chambers of Auersperg Palace were used in this movie. Built in 1721, the palace was severely damaged during the war, but has been restored. It was here in 1781 that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart conducted his opera "Idomeneo".