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00:01:00Out of the shadows of the past
00:01:12As from a fated tapestry of time's procession
00:01:14Slow and vast
00:01:15I step to bid you bear with me
00:01:17The while you are fancy I engage
00:01:19To look upon another age
00:01:21An age when on the human tide
00:01:24The plumed wave of chivalry rose to its summit
00:01:26Sweeping wide across a nation's mighty sea
00:01:29France never shone a brighter power
00:01:31Than in this high romantic hour
00:01:34So come with me to France of old
00:01:37To fiery days when hearts beat high
00:01:39When blood was young and hate was bold
00:01:42And sword cross sword to do or die
00:01:44For love and honor gloried then
00:01:46And friendship reached its peak with men
00:01:49Friends were friends in those brave days
00:01:52Ahos, Porthos, Adamis
00:01:56I graved our hearts with a mystic phrase
00:01:59Bound our lives with a mystic tie
00:02:01Come, stir your soul with our ringing call
00:02:05Of all for one
00:02:06And one for all
00:02:09Come on
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00:02:11It is Paris on the 15th day of September
00:02:31In the year of our Lord 1638
00:02:34Public excitement runs high
00:02:36The populace enjoy a general holiday
00:02:39Impatiently they wait for the news
00:02:41Of an heir to the throne of France
00:02:43His Majesty Louis XIII
00:02:59King of France
00:03:01Maintaining his royal authority
00:03:04Through the wits of others
00:03:05He is himself weak and vain
00:03:08And lives in the oily smiles
00:03:10Of a small circle of favorites
00:03:12But the court is alive with intrigue
00:03:16There are parties within parties
00:03:18Conspiracies beyond conspiracies
00:03:21Plots and counterplots
00:03:23His Eminence Monseigneur the Cardinal
00:03:32Duc de Richelieu
00:03:33He is the greatest statesman of the day
00:03:36And manipulates the strings
00:03:38Which guide the king
00:03:39His is the real power
00:03:41Subtle, cunning
00:03:43And often ruthless
00:03:45Still no one questions his devotion
00:03:48To the glorious kingdom of France
00:03:50On this auspicious morning
00:03:58The king pays a state visit to his queen
00:04:00It is the custom for the sovereign
00:04:03And his courtiers
00:04:04To attend the expectant royal mother
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00:04:07D'Artagnan
00:04:18Of the king's musketeers
00:04:20Relieved of his duties at court for the day
00:04:24He hurries to the home of his sweetheart
00:04:26Constance Bonacieux
00:04:27Constance is seamstress to the queen
00:04:31And is expected at the palace
00:04:32So she cannot tarry long
00:04:34Even the most eager lover by error
00:04:51Can sometimes kiss a miss
00:04:52Or miss a kiss
00:04:54The king's carriage
00:05:12It arrives for Constance
00:05:15She carries an infant's lay
00:05:17In a crocheted basket for the queen
00:05:19One kiss
00:05:24One caress
00:05:26One kiss
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00:06:14Two kiss
00:06:19A kiss truly is a delicate plant requiring privacy to grow into a tender blossom, the
00:06:30dream of all lovers.
00:07:00It's a nice thing to see in the sky.
00:07:04It's a lovely little one.
00:07:07It's a nice little one.
00:07:10A little bit more like a tree.
00:07:13Yeah.
00:07:14Let's go.
00:07:16Let's go.
00:07:19Let's go.
00:07:22Let's go.
00:07:25Let's go.
00:07:27The bell of the cathedral of Notre Dame remind d'Artagnan of his friend and fellow musketeer, Aramis.
00:07:37He might be in danger.
00:07:40Aramis had threatened to continue his flirtations with the pretty owner of a roving, provocative eye,
00:07:47who unfortunately is married to an officer in the cardinal's guards.
00:07:51A guardsman naturally resents these attentions from this musketeer,
00:07:55but is restrained.
00:07:57Has not the cardinal forbidden these duels with the king's musketeers?
00:08:02Ola!
00:08:04Famous battle cry of the musketeers.
00:08:06Instant help comes from the most fearsome steel in the kingdom.
00:08:10Huge Porthos, brave, strong, a king's musketeer.
00:08:15And musketeer Athos, gentle Athos, yet a deadly swordsman is able to kill with his left hand as with the right.
00:08:25D'Artagnan!
00:08:29The battle is forming.
00:08:31The cardinal's guards.
00:08:33This is no private fight then, eh?
00:08:35The musketeer's against the cardinal's guard.
00:08:37It started before D'Artagnan was born.
00:08:39And what are the odds?
00:08:40One, two, three, four, five, six, ten guards to four, five to two, two and a half to one?
00:08:44Ha! Too simple.
00:08:46Draw your skewer, monsieur half-guardsman.
00:08:48Let's measure half a point.
00:08:52En garde!
00:08:57Come, where's your challenge now?
00:08:58Where's your steel?
00:08:59What's your fear?
00:09:00The law?
00:09:01Does the cardinal still ban a friendly fight with a musketeer or two?
00:09:04No!
00:09:05Ah!
00:09:12Horthos, as always, is thirsty.
00:09:14He has capacity.
00:09:16D'Artagnan, with his quicker eye, has a more bountiful drinking source.
00:09:29Horthos can put out a hand and pick up the pot he's slavers for.
00:09:32Why waste energy walking?
00:09:35Come, driver.
00:09:36Come inside with us.
00:09:51The old driver swears his wagon is damaged.
00:09:54His master will skin him.
00:09:55His horse is loose.
00:09:56He has a terrible wife.
00:09:57He has trouble.
00:09:58Everybody is mean to him.
00:09:59He has to be mean, too.
00:10:02Now, take your temper out on me, good friend.
00:10:11Now, feel better?
00:10:12Now we can talk.
00:10:13I'll win you the price of your horse and more.
00:10:15Come, guardsman.
00:10:16I challenge you to game.
00:10:17This has not forbidden you.
00:10:19The dice are kind.
00:10:32Here's twenty times your price.
00:10:34My dogs are looking.
00:10:35There's no one.
00:10:36I'm sorry.
00:10:37You keep kidding me.
00:10:38I'll win you.
00:10:39I'll win you, you two.
00:10:40There's nothing.
00:10:41There's nothing too.
00:10:42I'm sorry.
00:10:43There's nothing.
00:10:44I'll win you.
00:10:45It's okay.
00:10:47If you need some time.
00:10:49If you want, let's be guilty.
00:10:51I'll win you, Paul.
00:10:53There's nothing but nothing about it.
00:10:55His luck riding Hyde, Artagnan returns to the dice game.
00:11:21Laughing and playing a while longer, he wins hands down from a fat-headed guardsman while
00:11:27waiting for the late evening rendezvous with Constance.
00:11:32Porthos too has women on his mind.
00:11:51And thus starts the only battle the musketeer's ever lost in fair fight.
00:12:06Of course it has to be with the fair sex.
00:12:10For the first time in his life, a panic-stricken Porthos screams a terrified, Hoila!
00:12:20Athos hears him.
00:12:23Aramis springs bravely to the side of his comrades and they flee together.
00:12:29But D'Artagnan hears only the pounding of a lover's heart.
00:12:36As the flood of battle at last sweeps close to him, he leaps to meet the foe.
00:12:43And draws his swords.
00:12:45He will fight, yes? No, yes, no he won't.
00:12:48Your indeed discretion is the better part of valor.
00:12:51Caught between the she-devils and the deep blue sea, they choose the water.
00:12:58The next morning the city is infirmed.
00:13:24The pressure beyond the gates is so great that the people are admitted to it.
00:13:27Adjoining the Queen's apartment, Constance prepares the layette.
00:13:37She is informed by Father Joseph, the Cardinal's trusted henchman, of the imminence of the royal birth.
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00:14:08And so a prince is born to France. One day to become Louis XIV.
00:14:15By ancient custom his royal father presents him to the people.
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00:14:40By ancient custom his royal father presents him to the people.
00:14:44But in the queen's bedroom another cry is heard. One of those rare turns of destiny. And Constance is the first to warn the tired, dozing midwife.
00:15:14Father Joseph grasps the vast consequences of this extraordinary event.
00:15:43This news must be conveyed discreetly to Cardinal Richelieu before it gets abroad. He writes a message inside the wrapper of some medicine. Intends it for the cardinal's eyes alone.
00:15:59Your medicine, your eminence.
00:16:02The Duke de Rochefort, conniving head of the most powerful faction in court, working always in self-interest against the king and cardinal, pretending loyalty to both.
00:16:17The necessity for caution on the part of Father Joseph is indeed well founded.
00:16:29To Rochefort, having many times seen messages thus taken to his eminence, becomes inquisitive. He resolves by a simple trick to learn the secret past of the cardinal.
00:16:38A substitution of scraps of paper.
00:16:45The cardinal realizes that enemies of the regime can do irreparable damage. Two heirs to the throne. Two rival parties of courtiers. More quarrels, more bloodshed.
00:17:01Poor France, helpless, torn between two factions. The secret of the twins must indeed be forever guarded. If France is to have peace, and if he, the cardinal, is to retain his power.
00:17:16No pretender this. A true prince. De Rochefort sees an opportunity. Father Joseph is instructed to prepare for a long voyage.
00:17:23The secret of the twins must indeed be forever guarded. If France is to have peace, and if he, the cardinal, is to retain his power.
00:17:37No pretender this. A true prince. De Rochefort sees an opportunity. Father Joseph is instructed to prepare for a long voyage.
00:17:44The cardinal has a plan. He sends a phage to summon De Rochefort.
00:17:56The cardinal has a plan. He sends a page to summon de Rochefort.
00:18:19Aware that Constance shares possession of a great secret, one so sacred it might well spell the future of France,
00:18:25the cardinal charges her to keep her lips sealed.
00:18:43Richelieu entrusts the wily de Rochefort with Constance's safety.
00:18:47She must not be permitted to see anyone until further notice.
00:18:50The cardinal is not at liberty to tell his reasons,
00:18:53but de Rochefort is making his own plans.
00:19:03In accordance with the cardinal's command, Father Joseph, accompanied by the midwife,
00:19:06secretly takes the twin away to the Spanish border.
00:19:12The child shall be raised as a commoner with no knowledge of his royal birth.
00:19:16Meanwhile, in the great ballroom, the king holds a reception in honor of his firstborn.
00:19:30Had he known the cradle should have held two sons, he might have been less self-satisfied with the cardinal's congratulations.
00:19:36To the notorious Milady de Winter, de Rochefort comes to reveal this chance of fate.
00:19:46The future of France may be in their hands.
00:19:49He tells her he will turn Constance over to her.
00:19:51She is to escort Constance to the convent of Saint-Germain.
00:19:54There, force her to tell the whole of the cardinal's secret and plans.
00:19:58He will play one against the other, cardinal against king, for his own ambition.
00:20:03Yeah.
00:20:04Ready?
00:20:05Maybe.
00:20:06A second will only be figura in the window
00:20:09but he will shine.
00:20:10The port of his passion in the populationもし the crowd franca,
00:20:15to the dead 문.
00:20:16Yeah, they're Glen Rodrigo asked for a couple of months as Emperor's household.
00:20:20I love before you kiss the other way
00:20:21Look, look.
00:20:23Monty is not a crossbody Orbital's Truth.
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00:20:28He told Tay來 not to come here now.
00:20:30His teeth are the two Roger.
00:20:31Do they still never expect her if her figure.
00:20:32Knowing Constance, one of the chair carriers runs with the news to the Musketeers barracks.
00:21:02D'Artagnan, wake up. Constance taken by force, by de Rochefort.
00:21:26To arms, to horse, rescue!
00:21:32All for one and one for all, and hang the tack.
00:21:51The wily cheat is in no mood to cross steel with this angry Gascon bet on justice.
00:21:56Rochefort's thugs are powerless to help them.
00:22:19Rochefort's thugs are powerless to help them.
00:22:23Rochefort's wily
00:22:30Rochefort's wily
00:22:32Cozro
00:22:35Right
00:22:36Oh, my God.
00:23:06The Rochefort is stubborn.
00:23:24He will not talk.
00:23:26He has to be persuaded.
00:23:36The probe goes on.
00:23:47Where is she?
00:23:47Where is Constance?
00:23:49Talk or fall 200 feet to the bottom of the well.
00:23:51Talk or die.
00:23:52The Cardinal's guard look on, afraid to act.
00:24:04A strand at a time, steel cuts through him.
00:24:08Three strands of it.
00:24:09And now but two.
00:24:11Now, one.
00:24:20Ah, the Rochefort breaks.
00:24:22The convent of Senegal.
00:24:28To the rescue.
00:24:29A stableman granted audience for the Cardinal tells of de Rochefort's trickery and capture
00:24:38and of Constance's abduction by Milady de Winter.
00:24:51Cardinal Richelieu and his escort reach the well to confront the Duke.
00:24:54Accused, exposed, a nervous, bedraggled penitent.
00:25:20He confesses that he has indeed played traitor.
00:25:22As eminence breaks de Rochefort's, stripping him of his authority and titles, banished from both court and country forever.
00:25:40Fearing for the safety of Constance, the Cardinal speeds in pursuit of Milady de Winter.
00:25:44Before dawn the next morning, the convent of Saint-Germain.
00:25:53Milady de Winter assures the unsuspecting nuns her prisoner is an enemy of the state.
00:26:10To be confined to the convent on orders of the Cardinal.
00:26:20The banished de Rochefort, smarting under his humiliations, lingers in Paris.
00:26:25All is not lost.
00:26:27He uses the last of his wealth in a desperate gamble and buys the services of ruffians.
00:26:32Pursue the Cardinal and assassinate him.
00:26:46Next, find D'Artagnan and his three musketeer friends and put them to the sword.
00:26:50The Rochefort still dreams of himself in terms of the most powerful man in France.
00:27:05The path to power is open.
00:27:07If Milady de Winter secures the secret from Constance.
00:27:11With sweet words and honeyed entreaties,
00:27:28the unscrupulous Milady de Winter seeks to cajole Constance into telling all she knows.
00:27:32No, Constance Bonacieux is not here.
00:27:59But he hears her voice.
00:28:00One for all and all for one.
00:28:30The mark of the public criminal, burnt by a branding iron into her flesh, a sign to all.
00:28:44Exposed to Constance as a criminal, Milady de Winter is desperate.
00:29:01Caught thus in a second act of crime by the laws of France, Milady must face public execution.
00:29:05It is her life or that of Constance.
00:29:14It is her life or that of Constance.
00:29:14The mark of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law of the law
00:29:44D'Artagnan hears Constance whisper that she loves him, loves him above all men, and then
00:29:55she murmurs three words, the other one, the other one.
00:30:08D'Artagnan strains to hear the faint pulse of her words, but Constance dies.
00:30:14The musketeers take Milady de Winter to her punishment.
00:30:31His Eminence the Cardinal has traveled through the night.
00:30:44He hears the dreadful news from the Mother Superior.
00:30:47Constance is dead.
00:30:55Faithful, loyal Constance.
00:30:58Arrest the murderous Milady de Winter and all in concert with her.
00:31:17The three musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, in rage, take the law into their own hands and deliver the murderous to the public executioner and order her death.
00:31:35And order her death.
00:31:37Then de Rochefort's cutthroats close in on the Cardinal's troop.
00:32:01And.
00:32:03Until.
00:32:05And.
00:32:07And.
00:32:19And.
00:32:21Some distance away, the musketeers are captured by their deadliest rivals.
00:32:51The cardinal's guard formally arrests the musketeers for continuing to take the law into their own hands.
00:33:00Disarmed, the musketeers are set against the wall for execution.
00:33:09Your guards will take the lives of my friends.
00:33:12Single-handed, they shall have revenge.
00:33:16The cardinal asks a moment to ponder.
00:33:19Constance dead.
00:33:20A murderess executed.
00:33:23Enough blood has been shed.
00:33:25Now the strife tricks musketeer and guard shall end.
00:33:28D'Artagnan's plea saves his friends, but there's to be a harsh penalty.
00:33:44Richelieu's plan concerns the state and these continuing disputes between his guard and the king's musketeers.
00:33:52The four musketeers must separate, never to come together again on pain of death.
00:33:57His judgment, oh, a sorry day.
00:34:02The musketeers are banished, each to his own province, never to visit Paris again, nor set foot beyond the bounds of his own fields.
00:34:11As for you, D'Artagnan, a splendid soldier, reliable, devoted to you, henceforth shall be bodyguard of the future king, beloved of France, the nations one.
00:34:31That one fell swoop, all strife is done.
00:34:35The musketeers prepare for their banishment.
00:34:42Godspeed, farewell.
00:34:44Eternal friendship, it shall not fall.
00:34:55All for one and one for all.
00:34:59Five years have passed.
00:35:21France is at peace.
00:35:23The infant prince grows to boyhood.
00:35:25Cardinal Richelieu, driven hard by the responsibilities of high office, lives in semi-retirement.
00:35:33And a royal father educates his son in courtly etiquette.
00:35:37In failing health, his eminence lives an hourly expectation of death, troubled by word that the second twin bears an identical likeness to the heir.
00:35:56The dangers inherent are obvious and weigh heavily on the cardinal's mind.
00:36:18He decides he must protect the prince somehow.
00:36:21His eminence provides that the rightful twin may always be identified from the other.
00:36:25With the aid of the court jeweler, he caused a gold doubloon to be broken.
00:36:29The smaller piece hangs on a chain around the throat of the infant prince.
00:36:33And its mate, he places about the neck of Captain D'Artagnan.
00:36:40And so, by joining the pieces, the true heir to the throne of France and the prince's first guardian are known to one another for all time.
00:36:52He starts to say, I hold a secret, but the chill hand is upon him.
00:37:02The life spring ebbs, and the great voice is silenced.
00:37:22A great statesman passes into history.
00:37:26The church loses a noble servant.
00:37:29And the ship of state is without its pilot.
00:37:32What was this secret that Richelieu and Constance shared?
00:37:38The other one.
00:37:41Across the Spanish border, the prince's twin brother is reared by servants of the late cardinal.
00:37:50The banished to Rochefort, living nearby, holds the twin under his very eye.
00:37:55He bides his time.
00:37:57He is only to wait patiently for the proper day.
00:38:09Upon the death of Louis XIII, the heir to the throne of the Dauphin, as he was called,
00:38:13became France's King Louis XIV.
00:38:16Both he and his twin had grown to manhood.
00:38:19The brothers are alike as two peas in a pod.
00:38:31Twenty years have passed, and more, since Richelieu bent his iron will to break the bonds that held us poor.
00:38:37But Porthos, Athos, Aramis, I will ride once more.
00:38:42Once more, we'll heed the clarion call of all for one, and one for all.
00:38:49During the years, de Rochefort's connivings have brought the exiled twin under his control.
00:38:59Secretly, they have returned to Paris.
00:39:01De Rochefort has lavished upon the usurper the trappings of royalty, teaching him to copy even the handwriting of his brother, the king.
00:39:08Yet the quality of the spirit so generous in the king is replaced in the brother by hatred and viciousness.
00:39:15The king's vela to de Rochefort's by brings long-awaited news.
00:39:28Within the week, an older d'Artagnan, after a lifetime of loyal service, will retire and leave the court.
00:39:34The young king will be without a bodyguard.
00:39:37Every detail of their plan has gone over.
00:39:40The map, the sentries to overpower, the secret approach to the royal apartment, the signals.
00:39:47This very week, de Rochefort tells the pretender, you will be his majesty, Louis XIV, King of France.
00:40:14Louis XIV, King of France, spends d'Artagnan's last day in fun and gaiety.
00:40:21The king has applied himself to an education in horsemanship, sportsmanship, and swordsmanship.
00:40:27No two men were ever closer except they were father and son.
00:40:44because my father's fire is early, d'Artagnan enters the royal bedchamber to bid the king goodbye .
00:40:55Tonight, he feels happy. His service is done. His king is secure. The state will receive safety.
00:40:56By the house. My father returns him to bare definite.
00:40:59Far and Rede,...
00:41:00The Red deix were over arsenic.
00:41:02And when he married as his father, the prince heads within Da hug.
00:41:05Because of the en ہers early, D'Artagnan's present in honor at times the king will be well together.
00:41:06In a right now. He says...
00:41:07Because Rio is early, to me偶ome when the king is made in harm from the throne wall of the family.
00:41:09People you think that there is still has a la hain of waiting.
00:41:10moonlight.
00:41:11Tonight he feels happy, his service is done, his king is secure, the state is safe,
00:41:15but by some odd premonition the coins are matched on this final night of parting.
00:41:41In a glow of happy memories of a delightful evening with the king, Captain D'Artagnan arrives outside his lodging and is amazed to find himself beset by ruffles.
00:42:00Angrily the Gascon plans his battle. First he deals with the dagger man decoy, sticks him with his own blade, throws the man's cape to the edge of an open sewer,
00:42:09places his own cape over the decoy's body and fires his own pistol.
00:42:14Hi-ho, on to the balcony.
00:42:29There they believe goes D'Artagnan.
00:42:39A thoughtful D'Artagnan returns to his lodging. For a peaceful man to be waylaid on a city street is something new.
00:42:48Hmm. He had spent the evening with his king. He reflects. Has the palace discipline been slackening too?
00:42:58Sentries were not where they should have been. His soldierly heart is disturbed for the safety of his king.
00:43:05The Rochefort's plan is working without a hitch. Sentries at the outer gate have been overpowered. Entry is forced into the inner quadrangle.
00:43:28The palace is entered through a servant's postern leading to long forgotten cellars.
00:43:34Success. No sound. No word. No warning.
00:43:40A GMT. No sound. Yes, yes, yes.
00:44:02The pretender waits impatiently below for the deed which will make him king.
00:44:18In the ante-room to the king's bedchamber, de Rochefort's maggot awaits his master's
00:44:22signal, ready for the final treachery.
00:44:30And a little after eleven o'clock on this fateful night, in one tragic moment, France
00:44:55loses her rightful king.
00:44:58Bewildered, uncertain if he dreams or not, King Louis XIV, surrounded by strangers, looks
00:45:26unbelievably at a venomously mirrored likeness of himself.
00:45:33The usurper watches his royal brother with a lifetime of hate.
00:45:42De Rochefort's plans have been cleverly checked and double-checked.
00:45:45He means to hold the true king a prisoner as a threat over the head of the usurper should
00:45:49he rebel against his commands.
00:45:54At de Rochefort's order his cohorts strip the king of his night attire and in exchange dress him in the usurper's clothes.
00:46:03In to the palace cellars a messenger reports breathlessly. D'Artagnan is dead. His body thrown in the river. Complete triumph at last.
00:46:22An iron mask. An invention of the devil. An iron mask a prison within a prison is placed over the head of the rightful King Louis XIV and locked at the neck. His countenance concealed from all men.
00:46:37The true king is led away.
00:47:02In the quiet of the royal apartments the true king's bed is occupied by the usurper.
00:47:15Trusted servitors have been spirited away. The twins lackeys have replaced them.
00:47:21De Rochefort's plan is complete.
00:47:28Poor France.
00:47:33Ruled by a youth driven near to lunacy by a solitary childhood. By de Rochefort's lies. By his own poisoned dreams.
00:47:40Truly a madman.
00:47:42Suffering in human life is proportioned to human strength.
00:47:52When the young king stupefied and crushed found himself led a prisoner to a cell in the Chateau Sainte-Marguerite in the south of France.
00:48:00He fancied at first that death is like sleep and has its dreams. He believed himself to be a spectator. A palpable phantom of his own suffering. A torture the more terrible since it might be eternal. Eternal death.
00:48:17How can I have died? I am a king yet not a king. Enthroned upon a funereal couch. No. No dear God do not punish me who have done nothing. Why am I thus punished?
00:48:32Like a cloak the chill of the dungeon falls upon his shoulders. So dwells the real Louis XIV in the living hell to remain thus the rest of his days.
00:48:55The Queen Mother. Always restricted. Prevented from seeing her son. Determines finally to pay him a visit.
00:49:02In place of the affectionate and courtly Louis XIV. To her horror she finds herself repulsed.
00:49:16Doubts. Again doubts.
00:49:20What strange malady besets my son.
00:49:24She thinks again of the other one.
00:49:27The Rochefort hurries to the king's apartment. Fearful that a mother's heart has sensed the truth.
00:49:34In pretence of humility he asks the Queen Mother to leave. Affairs of state.
00:49:39The Rochefort is determined. This shall not happen again. And whispers death.
00:49:40The Rochefort is determined. This shall not happen again. And whispers death.
00:49:47This shall not happen again.
00:50:00Day by day, night upon night, the prisoner prays for someone.
00:50:05Day by day, night upon night, the prisoner prays for some way to get word to D'Artagnan.
00:50:19A heaven-sent fisherman hoves to.
00:50:32He finishes scratching a message into pewter.
00:50:35And as all good prayers must be, his prayer is answered.
00:50:46Millet and mackerel are running.
00:50:48And then a catch, apparently from heaven.
00:50:59A fisherman reads the name of D'Artagnan.
00:51:01The idol of the nation.
00:51:03A written word, a beloved name, an urgent message.
00:51:06He, a patriot, needs no urge.
00:51:09Paris goes about its daily affairs unaware that its rightful king languishes in prison and the queen mother herself faces death as the humble fisherman hastens to D'Artagnan's home.
00:51:34D'Artagnan stays on in Paris and, to his hurt amazement, continually finds himself barred from the court.
00:51:43Day by day, week by week, audience with the king has been refused.
00:51:46The fisherman blurts his weird news, a story hard to believe, a lonely castle which D'Artagnan knows like the palm of his hand, a prisoner in an iron mask behind its bars.
00:51:59But the signature, an etching of a coin that fits his own exactly.
00:52:04Come, friend, eat and drink.
00:52:20There is business at last for me at the palace.
00:52:22Come, friend, eat and drink.
00:52:24There is business at last for me at the palace.
00:52:30D'Artagnan finds himself a stranger in a strange atmosphere and there is reason, he thinks, for this curious tension, to Rochefort and the king.
00:52:50D'Artagnan finds himself a stranger in a strange atmosphere and there is reason, he thinks, for this curious tension, to Rochefort and the king.
00:52:59This cannot be the boy I helped nurture into manhood.
00:53:03This is not the face of my king.
00:53:05Those are not his hands that risked neither parried steel nor engaged a point.
00:53:09What's been happening at court?
00:53:12De Rochefort is back in favor?
00:53:14A disgraced exile once more sporting about the throne room in the king's presence?
00:53:18D'Artagnan is amazed and shocked.
00:53:24But a further shock is in store.
00:53:26A chain and coin is passed to de Rochefort.
00:53:28If he can believe his eyes and all the years he served the king, they never left his royal person.
00:53:34He overhears a snatch of conversation.
00:53:37The other one.
00:53:39And suddenly he hears the dying voice of Constance.
00:53:43The other one.
00:53:45The other one.
00:53:47What did she mean?
00:53:56A message signed by the royal coin.
00:54:01A king, not a king.
00:54:03And a court alive with known traitors.
00:54:06D'Artagnan smells a rat.
00:54:08But a rat has seen him and gives warning.
00:54:11The palace guards are alerted.
00:54:14And all exits barred.
00:54:26Little do they reckon with a resourceful old musketeer.
00:54:49D'Artagnan orders a king's loyal troop to be hurried to meet him at the Chateau San Marguerite.
00:54:56Curriers are to be dispatched to his old friends, the three musketeers.
00:54:59Athos, Porthos and Aramis.
00:55:01To arms, musketeers.
00:55:03Your king has need of you.
00:55:05One for all.
00:55:07And all for one.
00:55:13The jig is up.
00:55:14D'Artagnan lives and knows.
00:55:16There's pewter plate.
00:55:18Perhaps even now he has reached the prison gate.
00:55:29The Rochefort cannot believe his future lies in a common plate.
00:55:38Quickly he resolves to end all doubts.
00:55:41He decides to ride at the head of his troops to prevent any attempt to free the king.
00:55:56The apostle d'Artagnan has reached the Chateau San Marguerite.
00:55:59Certain that his comrades will join him.
00:56:01Under cover of the raging storm he rose to the grotto beneath the castle.
00:56:08Many a time as a young officer he had patrolled his grotto passage.
00:56:12It led, he knew, to the arsenal.
00:56:15Beyond that the armory.
00:56:16Then the main hall and staircase to the tower itself.
00:56:19Up there is the man in the iron mask.
00:56:22The writer of the message.
00:56:36To his astonishment d'Artagnan finds the entrance to the arsenal as newly walled.
00:56:52The old war horse is prepared to hazard it alone if necessary.
00:57:16The fisherman returns to the opposite bank to await the arrival of help.
00:57:22Atos, a few years older, a little more grizzled, the same brave companion as of old.
00:57:39Ready and willing for any gambit.
00:57:52And now, Aramis.
00:57:56And now, Aramis.
00:58:22Aramis.
00:58:23Aramis.
00:58:24Aramis.
00:58:25Aramis.
00:58:26Aramis.
00:58:27Aramis.
00:58:28Aramis.
00:58:29Aramis.
00:58:30Aramis.
00:58:31Aramis.
00:58:32Aramis.
00:58:33Aramis.
00:58:34Aramis.
00:58:35Aramis.
00:58:36Aramis.
00:58:37Aramis.
00:58:38Aramis.
00:58:39Aramis.
00:58:40Now, two of the valiant comrades have arrived.
00:58:43No time to wait for old Porthos.
00:58:45No time for explanations.
00:58:46There's a job to be done.
00:58:48Forward.
00:58:49Through the racks of gunpowder barrels to the main hall and the tower staircase itself.
00:58:59Where's the prisoner before your gullet tastes this edge, you bloated villain?
00:59:16Where's the prisoner before your gullet tastes this edge, you bloated villain?
00:59:28Take him possession of your gullet's house.
00:59:32You will die again.
00:59:33There's no hole.
00:59:34Take this.
00:59:35Until now, Aramis.
00:59:36One little again.
00:59:37Here's the two men tyrant.
00:59:38God is too.
00:59:39I don't know who you're dead if you are dead.
00:59:40Sir.
00:59:42I don't know who you are, I don't know who you, I don't know who he is.
00:59:44At last, D'Artagnan knows the voice.
01:00:08This is true and rightful king, Louis XIV, King of France.
01:00:14The castle guards.
01:00:23The challenge is met.
01:00:27The musketeers fight together again.
01:00:44The musketeers fight together again.
01:00:50The men do not think the role of the rule obey.
01:00:56It is the most easy.
01:00:58The other men do not think the role of the power of the city.
01:01:02Oh, my God.
01:01:32Oh, my God.
01:02:02And thirsty as much for the sight of his companions as for a little drop of blood.
01:02:32Oh, my God.
01:03:02All for one and one for all.
01:03:21Be certain, cherished friends that I shall wait for you.
01:03:27What good times we had together, eh?
01:03:30Good Porthos, farewell.
01:03:46You died as you lived, for love of country, in the service of your king.
01:03:56The fisherman gives warning of the approach of enemies.
01:03:59The musketeers surround the king and gallop off to Paris.
01:04:23The rochefort rides hard in the last effort to keep his house from crumbling.
01:04:29The odds are ten to one.
01:04:40Take care, your majesty.
01:04:56On to Paris.
01:05:04Farewell, gallant Aramis.
01:05:05A traitor's bullet struck you down.
01:05:08Meanwhile, Athos crosses swords with de rochefort.
01:05:11But at the highest price of all, Athos joins his comrades.
01:05:21And without knowing his own peril, the half-wit, half-king entertains his royal mother at a palace luncheon.
01:05:35Cunningly, he says, a private matter.
01:05:47More troops from the palace.
01:06:01Friends or foes?
01:06:04Friends.
01:06:06D'Artagnan breathes relief.
01:06:10Friends, D'Artagnan breathes relief. The king is safe. God save the king.
01:06:40The queen mother suspects this attempt on her life.
01:06:51The witch's brew, a subtle poison already responsible for many an agonizing death.
01:06:58Raise your glass, madam. Drink to your king, to your country and its illustrious people.
01:07:05Come, I give you France. Dare she refuse?
01:07:10It is the edict of her son, the king.
01:07:18The toast, but a warning cry.
01:07:40The usurper finally gets his rightful crown, to Rochefort's own damnable invention, the iron mask. His to the end of his days.
01:07:57As D'Artagnan pours away the poisoned wine, the usurper takes swift bitter revenge.
01:08:03As D'Artagnan pours away the poisoned wine, the usurper takes swift bitter revenge.
01:08:13As D'Artagnan pours away the poisoned wine, the usurper takes swift bitter revenge.
01:08:44D'Artagnan knows himself mortally wounded, but allows no sign to mar the happiness of his king.
01:08:49Blood, the weapon of the murderer, with crimson evidence on the blade.
01:08:59Blood, the weapon of the murderer, with crimson evidence on the blade.
01:09:13Grateful Louis looks for Captain D'Artagnan to honor him with the bateau of a marshal of France.
01:09:28But where is the musketeer?
01:09:44The court resounds with the king's commands and his cry to find his friend and mentor.
01:09:50What a man may think when he knows of the approach of death is secret between himself and his son.
01:09:57And his maker.
01:10:00Perhaps the gallant musketeer thinks most of his lost love, Constance.
01:10:04And of all the tender, lonely years kept warm by her memory.
01:10:09He dies in hope of faith that she might welcome him.
01:10:13That once again they might be won.
01:10:16How can they die, these bright ones?
01:10:19How may such energy, once released, be prisoned by earth or stone or grave?
01:10:24We die as we lived, say they, with life.
01:10:28And with life, how can there be death?
01:10:34Only remember us.
01:10:36Only open a little book and we shall always be with you.
01:10:38To ride a fine horse or to cross a sharp blade or carouse with a barrel or dally with a maid.
01:10:44Come one, come all.
01:10:45Come all.
01:10:58And so pass to brave and glorious men.
01:11:02In honor.
01:11:04Only think and we live again.
01:11:05We live forever.
01:11:06For with us, now as ever, it's one for all and all for one.
01:11:13And thus it was in France of old and fiery days, when hearts beat high.
01:11:19When blood was young and hate was bold and sword crossed sword to do or die.
01:11:23For love and honor gloried then, when life was life and men were men.
01:11:28Men were men.
01:11:58Now, by the way, will you die for the show.
01:11:59Thank you for your eyes.
01:12:01Children for the Scheune, that made it good.
01:12:04All that's What I'm happy.
01:12:05Aren't you not speak?
01:12:07You're here, my dear about employment.
01:12:09How have you been born.
01:12:10The color of the deities, that followed by the black men on to provide a hard drive to the