The Three Musketeers | |
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Directed by | Miguel M. Delgado |
Written by | Jaime Salvador |
Based on | The Three Musketeers 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas |
Produced by | Jacques Gelman |
Starring | Cantinflas |
Cinematography | Gabriel Figueroa |
Edited by | Emilio Gómez Muriel |
Music by | Manuel Esperón |
Production company | Posa Films |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Running time | 138 minutes |
Country | Mexico |
Language | Spanish |
The Three Musketeers (Spanish: Los tres mosqueteros) is a 1942 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas. It is based on the 1844 novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas.
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at the CLASA film studios. While on the set, Cantinflas falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
Posa Films hired a number of established stars cast to support its contract actor Cantinflas. [1] Miguel M. Delgado, who was already considered "Cantinflas' exclusive director", was assigned to direct the lavish and expensive production. [1] Jaime Salvador, whose screenplay for the previous Cantinflas vehicle El gendarme desconocido brought him fame, adapted Dumas' novel for the screen. [1] Ballet Theatre, a renowned dance group of the time, was employed to perform the ballet in the throne room scene. [1]
Los tres mosqueteros was a financial success. It "broke all box-office records" in Mexico and earned 123,000 pesos in its first week and 248,000 in the following three weeks. [2]
At the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, Los tres mosqueteros competed for the Grand Prix, [3] which was awarded to another Mexican film, María Candelaria (1943). [4]
Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes, known by the stage name Cantinflas, was a Mexican comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He is considered to have been the most widely accomplished Mexican comedian and is celebrated throughout Latin America and in Spain as a popular icon. His humor, loaded with Mexican linguistic features of intonation, vocabulary, and syntax, is beloved in all the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America and in Spain and has given rise to a range of expressions including cantinflear, cantinflada, cantinflesco, and cantinflero.
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