Les quatre Charlots mousquetaires (1974, France)

A slapstick comedy version of the Musketeers story; in this one the real musketeers are lazy and useless and all of the heroism is deployed by their servants; but it's played strictly for laughs.

It's urgently necessary to deliver a secret letter to the queen. Two of them will have to go and pretend to be her servants to get access to her. But wait! All her servants are female! There's only one way round this. Two of them go as female servants, in quite elaborate costumes.

The queen receives the letter but doesn't realise they are really men, so she tells one of them to help her change her clothes.

A moment later the English Duke of Buckingham gets access to the room, but the King's guards have discovered that he is there, so our two heroes dress him in the female clothes so that he can make good his escape, his beard and moustache notwithstanding.

The costumes they wear are identical to those used in the 1973 film, Les Quatre Charlots en folie! 2ème ronde.

HF March 2008

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