sends d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Raoul to rescue him. They attempt a rescue by knocking out the executioner, but Justine takes his place and beheads Charles. The Musketeers have several encounters with Justine: in one, Raoul's true allegiance is revealed to her; in another, Justine and Rochefort attempt to kill the Musketeers by blowing up their ship. The Musketeers notice their trap, set their own bomb and escape. Rochefort is killed when the ship explodes, but Justine escapes. Justine attempts to kill King Louis XIV, but is stopped by the Musketeers, and their battle concludes with Justine jumping out of the window into the water. Aramis rejoins the Musketeers, and they force Mazarin to sign several forms in favour of them, including making Porthos a baron, Aramis a bishop, and Raoul being commissioned into the Guards. The film ends with the Musketeers riding together again. Cast Michael York as d'Artagnan Oliver Reed as Athos Frank Finlay as Porthos Richard Chamberlain as Aramis C. Thomas Howell as Raoul Geraldine Chaplin as Anne of Austria Kim Cattrall as Justine de Winter Philippe Noiret as Cardinal Mazarin Christopher Lee as the Comte de Rochefort Roy Kinnear as Planchet Eusebio Lázaro as the Duke of Beaufort Jean-Pierre Cassel as Cyrano de Bergerac Alan Howard as Oliver Cromwell David Birkin as Louis XIV Bill Paterson as Charles I Billy Connolly as Caddie Production The film was Richard Lester's first movie in four years. It reunited him with the main cast of the first two films. Author George MacDonald Fraser said that in the film "Charles I is seen playing golf, which is, incidentally, true. He was playing golf just before he was captured." Lester said the two main problems with the film were a lack of money, and a refusal of the Salkinds to let him use footage from the first two films. "The whole concept of making Dumas' Twenty Years After was destroyed," said Lester. "It was the hole beneath the water line." However Lester did admit even that may not have worked as the target audience were unlikely to have been familiar with the original films. The film was shot in Spain. Charlton Heston was hoping to be asked to reprise his role as Cardinal Richelieu from the original films but the cardinal had died several years before the events of the new movie. Heston did give the filmmakers permission to use a