理查德·莱斯特

故事发生在17世纪的法国，红衣教主黎塞留（查尔登·海斯顿 Charlton Heston 饰）想要谋权篡位，设下重重阴谋诡计。达达尼昂（麦克尔·约克 Michael York 饰）一心想要报效祖国，于是远赴巴黎想要加入火枪队。在此过程中，达达尼昂结识了阿多斯（奥列佛·里德 Oliver Reed 饰）、波尔多斯（弗兰克·芬莱 Frank Finlay 饰）和阿拉密斯（理查德·查伯兰 Richard Chamberlain 饰），四人不打不相识，成为莫逆之交。　　一次偶然中，达达尼昂得知了黎塞留的阴谋，为了斩草除根，黎塞留设计令达达尼昂被判处了死刑，所幸得到了三名火枪手的救助，达达尼昂才捡回了小命。之后，四人将国王从刺客的枪口之下救出，并向绑架了国王和王后的黎塞留宣战。17世纪的法国——红衣主教兼宰相黎塞留阴谋篡权，他把火枪队派往前线作战，目的是为了削弱国王身边的力量。而一心只想加入火枪队的世家子弟达达尼昂正走在来巴黎从军的路上。他与三个火枪手阿多斯、波尔多斯、阿拉密斯不期而遇，并且不打不成交，结成莫逆。达达尼昂无意中听到黎塞留的阴谋，被判处死刑。紧要关头，三个火枪手将其救出。他们决心阻止刺杀国王的行动。就在刺客的枪口已瞄准国王的那一刻，达达尼昂截住刺客。黎塞留将国王和王后扣做人质。双方在宫中展开生死搏斗。最后，火枪手们得胜，受到国王的嘉奖。达达尼昂也如愿成为火枪队的正式成员。

这是Richard Lester最好的一个片。　　An absurdist classic　　This is a wonderful surreal comedy based on the play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. You know that it is going to be an odd film right at the beginning, when the opening credits list the cast in order of their height. The film begins with the BBC (Frank Thornton) telling us through the facade of an old television that this is the third, or is it the fourth, anniversary of the shortest war in history, lasting 2 hours and 28 minutes. England is now a barren landscape, littered with derelict cars and buildings, hills of old boots, broken crockery, and other debris. Forty million people perished and there are only 20 known survivors. The Queen did not survive, and of the 20 known survivors the next in line for the throne is a Mrs Ethel Schroake of 393a High Street, Leytonstone. Among the other survivors are Ralph Richardson (O Lucky Man!) as Lord Fortnum of Alamein, who isn't looking forward to his impending mutation into a bed sitting room. Michael Hordern is Bules Martin, who wears a 18-carat Hovis bread ring. Spike Milligan is a postman who wanders around and delivers some memorable dialogue, for example And in come the three bears - the daddy bear said, 'Who's been sleeping in my porridge' - and the mummy bear said, 'that's no porridge, that was my wife' . Arthur Lowe is slowly turning into a parrot (which is then eaten by Spike Milligan), while his wife, the owner of her own death certificate, turns into a wardrobe. His daughter is pregnant with a strange creature, which she has held inside her for seventeen months. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are a pair of policemen who perpetually tell the others to keep moving!. Moore growls a lot and turns into a dog at the end. Marty Feldman is a wellington-boot-wearing nurse. It's a hilarious, absurdist treat, and one of my treasured filmic pleasures.