> For the life of me I don't remember a Disney version. Just as well. It was a 1993 film, with a star cast including people like Val Kilmer, Keifer Sutherland, Martin Sheen and Tim Curry. It was alright as these things go. Tim Curry played an over-the-top Richelieu, and the conclusion of the story went way out into left field with Richelieu attempting to escape with Louis and Anne as hostages and the Musketeers as their rescuers. In a typical Disney ending, D'artangan is called out by the brother of girl how had "dishonored" at the beginning of the film. As D'artagnan prepares to accept the challenge, Aramis tells him that no Musketeer ever stands alone, and the brother and his minions flee in terror as the entire legion of Musketeers comes charging forward in Brotherhood with D'artagnan. If you're a story puritan, you should probably avoid it. *heh* > This wonderful adaptation [with Michal York] attempted to be true to the novel - > so much so > that it could not be cut to movie length. So they split it into two > movies. The cast sued to be paid for two movies, but I > don't remember the > result of that. I've been reading up on it in IMDB. If this thread has accomplished nothing else, it will at least have got me interested enough to move the Michael York movies to the top of my Netflix list so that I can see if I like them any better twenty years later. Seeing both movies back-to-back might at least make me appreciate the first one more than I did when it came out in the theater back in the seventies. > The typical movie is long enough for something like a 110 > page novel. I > just bought the DvD of _Master and Commander, Far side of the > World_ and am interested in seeing how successful it was. I've not read the novels at all. (I understand from people who have that the film is inspired by parts of 2-3 books.) I expected to be bored, frankly, but I really enjoyed it. I can't contrast it to the source material but it worked for me as an excellent story. Since Steve has mentioned reading those books I suppose we're even marginally on topic still. *heh*