Word: richelieu
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Vincent de Paul goes to the village of Chatillonles-Dombes, which has been without a priest for ten years. His success there (he organizes a mission to care for the poor) draws the attention of Richelieu, who makes him Chaplain of the Royal Galleys. As a Court official, however, the priest feels out of touch with the unfortunates he wants so passionately to serve. He gives up all of his possessions, and later, convinced that the "miserables" need food more than religious instruction, founds the famous St. Lazare mission in Paris...
...Germans apparently did not think much of the U.S.'s greats. Washington and Lincoln barely won honorable mention, and the late President Roosevelt got only 109 votes-63 less than Stalin, and just enough to tie him for ninth place with France's 17th Century Cardinal Richelieu...
Alexander Dumas would smile at his characters in this gem: they are all as he would have them, exceptionally good or horrendously evil. Vincent Price as Richelieu is oily and sinister, with just a dash of greed. Frank Morgan as Louis XIII is weak and vacillating. The heroine is June Allyson, who is totally incapable of portraying anyone not pure and naive. Lana Turner plays Lady de Winter, the cruel, unscrupulous femme fatale; she is grotesquely miscast, but retains a certain innate charm...
...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...
...shots of Dancer Kelly's graceful gymnastics. Since the musketeers never fight at odds of less than 20 to 1 (against them, of course) they have an uphill job unraveling the intrigues of the Queen of France (Angela Lansbury), the Duke of Buckingham (John Sutton) and the unctuous Richelieu (Vincent Price...