Word: artagnan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gene Kelly is D'Artagnan, and what a D'Artagnan! He calmly scales a castle rampart at night, casually rips down whole sets of draperies with a flick of his wrist, hefts a 500-pound bronze statue and chucks it at half a dozen charging varlets--and then springs up a tavern wall to help a friend in danger. In the arms of evil Lady de Turner, he shows that he's just a simple country boy at heart...
...super-swashbuckling is a superb form of screen humor. And yet there are some dreadful little moments, when the actors suddenly become deadpan, straining to get a dull point across. But these scenes are few, and fairly short. When they intrude, just think back a piece and remember D'Artagnan as he points his poinard to the sky and shouts "All for one!" and his comrades raise their rapiers and reply...
...writes, "D'Artagnan gives up skewering his enemies to settle down in the country with a seamstress at the court (June Allyson...
...Miss Allyson has been dead for reels, and Mr. Kelly (D'Artagnan) accepts Richelieu's invitation to stay on in Paris, presumably for further skewering...
...Artagnan gives up skewering his enemies to settle down in the country with a seamstress at the court (June Allyson). He might have done well to take along his manservant (Keenan Wynn), whose comic talents occasionally save Musketeers from the doldrums...