Word: artagnans
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...writes, "D'Artagnan gives up skewering his enemies to settle down in the country with a seamstress at the court (June Allyson...
Gene Kelly plays D'Artagnan as an irrepressible, tongue-in-cheek Gascon who is knee-deep in gory swordplay. But his comrades Athos, Porthos and-Aramis are derring-doodlers. Athos (Van Heflin) is a self-pitying alcoholic, grieving over his betrayal by a buxom babe known around the French court as Lady de Winter (Lana Turner). Porthos is just a fortune hunter, and Aramis is ready to forswear the world...
...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...
Afternoons, Young tries to get in some golf, often breaks 80. At night, he likes to read. His favorite authors are Mark Twain and Dumas (Young sometimes refers to himself as "the D'Artagnan of the 20th Century...
Against the background of the vivid, swirling gaiety of Moliere's and d'Artagnan's France, Cyrano is the manipulated story of a rapier-wielding, poetry-spouting wit who lets his nose get in the way of his love affairs. An iconoclast, embattled against a pedantic society, he sweeps all before him except the final prize, the ivory-fair Roxane. His winning love speeches he puts into the mouth of a handsome dolt, for her sake. The motif is noble, yet it shrinks to the simple moral that it takes more than a sharp tongue, a sharper sword...