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00:00:00THE END

00:00:30The End

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

00:02:10Come on

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 Richelle

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

00:04:06Until his child is born

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 Bonacie

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 caress

00:05:26One kiss

00:05:49One caress

00:05:50One caress

00:05:51One caress

00:05:52One caress

00:05:53One caress

00:05:54One caress

00:05:55One caress

00:05:56One caress

00:05:57One caress

00:05:58One caress

00:05:59One caress

00:06:00One caress

00:06:01One caress

00:06:02One caress

00:06:03One caress

00:06:04One caress

00:06:05One caress

00:06:06One caress

00:06:07One caress

00:06:08One caress

00:06:09One caress

00:06:10One caress

00:06:11One caress

00:06:12One caress

00:06:13One caress

00:06:14One caress

00:06:15One caress

00:06:16One caress

00:06:17A kiss truly is a delicate plant requiring privacy to grow into a tender blossom, the

00:06:30dream of all lovers.

00:06:36The End

00:06:55Here!

00:07:25The bell of the cathedral of Notre Dame remind d'Artagnan of his friend and fellow musketeer, Aramis. He might be in danger.

00:07:40Aramis had threatened to continue his flirtations with the pretty owner of a roving, provocative eye, who unfortunately is married to an officer in the cardinal's guards.

00:07:51The guardsman naturally resents these attentions from this musketeer, but is restrained. Has not the cardinal forbidden these duels with the king's musketeers?

00:08:03Ola! The famous battle cry of the musketeers. Instant help comes from the most fearsome steel in the kingdom.

00:08:11Huge Porthos. Brave, strong, a king's musketeer. And musketeer Athos. Gentle Athos.

00:08:19What a deadly swordsman is able to kill with his left hand is with the right.

00:08:26D'Artagnan! The battle is forming. The cardinal's guards. This is no private fight then, eh?

00:08:36The musketeer is against the cardinal's guard. It started before D'Artagnan was born.

00:08:40And what are the odds? One, two, three, four, five, six, ten guards to four, five to two, two and a half to one?

00:08:45Ha! Too simple. Draw your skewer, Monsieur Half-Gardsman. Let's measure half a point.

00:08:52En garde!

00:08:53Come, where's your challenge now? Where's your steel? What's your fear? The law?

00:09:00Does the cardinal still ban a friendly fight with a musketeer or two?

00:09:04Horthos, as always, is thirsty. He has capacity. D'Artagnan, with his quicker eye, has a more bountiful drinking source.

00:09:19Horthos can put out a hand and pick up the potty slavers for. Why waste energy walking?

00:09:34Come, driver. Come inside with us.

00:09:37The old driver swears his wagon is damaged. His master will skin him. His horse is loose.

00:09:56He has a terrible wife. He has trouble. Everybody is mean to him. He has to be mean, too.

00:10:00Ha-ha! Now, take your temper out on me, good friend.

00:10:10Now, feel better? Now we can talk. I'll win you the price of your horse and more.

00:10:15Come, Gardsman. I challenge you to game. This has not forbidden you.

00:10:19The dice are kind. Here's twenty times your price.

00:10:34The action items is not wasn't.

00:10:38The action items help put away all the supplies to the bakery.

00:10:40The action items will store you forever.

00:10:44Here's twenty times.

00:10:47The procedures will soon be filled.

00:10:55One, where do you fit some貝賤?

00:10:59SpongeBob, Sandy is a land editor.

00:11:01his luck riding high d'artagnan returns to the dice game laughing and playing a while longer he

00:11:23wins hands down from a fat-headed guardsman while waiting for the late evening rendezvous with

00:11:29Constance Porthos too has women on his mind

00:11:59and thus starts the only battle the musketeers ever lost in fair fight of course it has to be with a fair sex

00:12:08for the first time in his life a panic-stricken Porthos screams a terrified

00:12:18Hila! Athos hears him

00:12:21Aramis springs bravely to the side of his comrades and they flee together

00:12:27but d'artagnan hears only the pounding of a lover's heart

00:12:34as the flood of battle at last sweeps close to him he leaps to meet the foe

00:12:40and draws his swords

00:12:45he will fight yes no yes no he won't here indeed discretion is the better part of valor

00:12:50caught between the she-devils and the deep blue sea they choose the water

00:12:57the next morning the city is infirmed the pressure beyond the gates is so great that the people are

00:13:27admitted to the courtyard

00:13:34adjoining the Queen's apartment Constance prepares the layette

00:13:42she is informed by father Joseph the cardinal's trusted henchman of the imminence of the royal birth

00:13:54Oh

00:13:56Oh

00:13:57Oh

00:13:58Oh

00:13:59And so a prince is born to France,

00:14:01one day to become Louis XIV.

00:14:23And so a prince is born to France,

00:14:26one day to become Louis XIV.

00:14:40By ancient custom his royal father presents him to the people.

00:14:56But in the queen's bedroom another cry is heard.

00:15:02One of those rare turns of destiny.

00:15:05And Constance is the first to warn the tired, dozing midwife.

00:15:08The End

00:15:09The End

00:15:10The End

00:15:11The End

00:15:12The End

00:15:13The End

00:15:15The End

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00:15:17Father Joseph grasps the vast consequences of this extraordinary event.

00:15:19Father Joseph grasps the vast consequences of this extraordinary event.

00:15:43This news must be conveyed discreetly to Carton Richelieu before it gets abroad.

00:15:47He writes a message inside the wrapper of some medicine, intends it for the Cardinal's eyes alone.

00:15:59Your medicine, Your Eminence.

00:16:06The 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.

00:16:16The necessity for caution on the part of Father Joseph is indeed well founded.

00:16:29De Rochefort, having many times seen messages thus taken to his eminence, becomes inquisitive.

00:16:34He resolves by a simple trick to learn the secret past of the Cardinal.

00:16:41A substitution of scraps of paper.

00:16:44The Cardinal realizes that enemies of the regime can do irreparable damage.

00:17:05Two heirs to the throne.

00:17:08Two rival parties of courtiers.

00:17:11More quarrels, more bloodshed.

00:17:13Poor France, helpless, torn between two factions.

00:17:17The secret of the twins must indeed be forever guarded.

00:17:22If France is to have peace.

00:17:25And if he, the Cardinal, is to retain his power.

00:17:36No pretender this.

00:17:37A true prince.

00:17:39De Rochefort sees an opportunity.

00:17:41Father Joseph is instructed to prepare for a long voyage.

00:17:57The Cardinal has a plan.

00:17:58He sends a page to summon De Rochefort.

00:18:19Aware that Constance shares possession of a great secret.

00:18:21One so sacred it might well spell the future of France.

00:18:24The Cardinal charges her to keep her lips sealed.

00:18:43Richelieu entrusts the wily De Rochefort with Constance's safety.

00:18:46She 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,

00:19:05Father Joseph, accompanied by the midwife,

00:19:07secretly takes the twin away to the Spanish border.

00:19:12The child shall be raised as a commoner

00:19:14with no knowledge of his royal birth.

00:19:20Meanwhile, in the great ballroom,

00:19:22the king holds a reception in honor of his firstborn.

00:19:25Had he known the cradle should have held two sons,

00:19:26he might have been less self-satisfied

00:19:27with the Cardinal's congratulations.

00:19:29To the notorious Milady de Winter,

00:19:30de Rochefort comes to reveal this chance of fate.

00:19:31The future of France may be in their hands.

00:19:32He tells her he will turn Constance over to her.

00:19:33She is to escort Constance to the convent of Saint-Gymel.

00:19:34There, force her to tell the whole of the Cardinal's secret and plans.

00:19:36He will play one against the other, Cardinal against King,

00:19:38for his own ambition.

00:19:42To the notorious Milady de Winter,

00:19:43to the notorious Milady de Winter,

00:19:44de 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-Gymel.

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,

00:20:00Cardinal against King, for his own ambition.

00:20:03The End

00:20:33Knowing Constance to be

00:20:40one of the chair carriers runs with the news to the Musketeers' barracks.

00:21:03D'Artagnan, wake up. Constance taken by force, by de Rochefort.

00:21:26To arms, to horse, rescue!

00:21:33All for one and one for all, and hang the tack.

00:21:52The wily cheat is in no mood to cross steel with his angry Gascon bet on justice.

00:22:03ациus appraxed

00:22:21Rochefort's thugs are powerless to help.

00:22:24Let's go.

00:22:54Let's go.

00:23:24He will not talk.

00:23:26He has to be persuaded.

00:23:46Probe 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.

00:23:59The cardinal's guard look on, afraid to act.

00:24:01A strand at a time, steel cuts through him.

00:24:08He strands it.

00:24:09And now, but two.

00:24:16Now, one.

00:24:17Ah, De Rochefort breaks.

00:24:22The convent of Saint-Gilead.

00:24:28To the rescue!

00:24:34A stableman granted audience for the cardinal

00:24:36tells of De Rochefort's trickery and capture

00:24:38and of Constance's abduction by Milady de Winter.

00:24:41Cardinal Richelieu and his escort reached the well

00:24:54to confront the Duke.

00:24:54Accused, exposed, a nervous, bedraggled penitent.

00:25:19He confesses that he has indeed played traitor.

00:25:25His eminence breaks De Rochefort,

00:25:27stripping him of his authority and titles,

00:25:29banished from both court and country forever.

00:25:31Fearing for the safety of Constance,

00:25:42the cardinal speeds in pursuit of Milady de Winter.

00:25:50Before dawn the next morning,

00:25:52the convent of Saint-Gimel.

00:25:54Milady de Winter assures the unsuspecting nuns

00:26:08her prisoner is an enemy of the state

00:26:10to be confined to the convent

00:26:12on orders of the cardinal.

00:26:20The banished De Rochefort,

00:26:22smarting under his humiliations,

00:26:23lingers in Paris.

00:26:25All is not lost.

00:26:27He uses the last of his wealth

00:26:29in a desperate gamble

00:26:30and buys the services of ruffians.

00:26:41Pursue the cardinal

00:26:42and assassinate him.

00:26:46Next, find D'Artagnan

00:26:48and his three musketeer friends

00:26:49and put them to the sword.

00:26:53The Rochefort still dreams of himself

00:27:00in terms of the most powerful man in France.

00:27:05The path to power is open

00:27:07if Milady de Winter

00:27:09secures the secret from Constance.

00:27:11With sweet words and honeyed entreaties,

00:27:28the unscrupulous Milady de Winter

00:27:30seeks to cajole Constance

00:27:31into telling all she knows.

00:27:32No, Constance Bonacieux is not here.

00:27:53No, Constance Bonacieux is not here.

00:27:59But he hears her voice.

00:28:00One for all and all for one.

00:28:18The mark of the public criminal,

00:28:40burnt by a branding iron

00:28:42into her flesh,

00:28:43a sign to all.

00:28:57Exposed to Constance as a criminal,

00:28:59Milady de Winter is desperate.

00:29:01If caught thus in a second act of crime

00:29:03by the laws of France,

00:29:04Milady must face public execution.

00:29:11It is her life

00:29:12or that of Constance.

00:29:33D'Artagnan hears constance whisper

00:29:51that she loves him,

00:29:52loves him above all men.

00:29:54And then she murmurs three words,

00:29:56the other one,

00:29:58the other one.

00:30:03D'Artagnan strains to hear

00:30:09the faint pulse of her words.

00:30:12But Constance dies.

00:30:16The musketeers take Milady de Winter

00:30:18to her punishment.

00:30:19His Eminence the Cardinal

00:30:32has traveled through the night.

00:30:44He hears the dreadful news

00:30:46from the Mother Superior.

00:30:48Constance is dead.

00:30:56Faithful, loyal Constance.

00:31:16Arrest the murderous Milady de Winter

00:31:21and all in concert with her.

00:31:28The three musketeers,

00:31:30Athos, Porthos, and Aramis,

00:31:31enraged,

00:31:32take the law into their own hands

00:31:33and deliver the murderers

00:31:34to the public executioner

00:31:35and order her death.

00:31:46Then de Rochefort's cutthroats

00:32:00close in on the Cardinal's troop.

00:32:02This is going to be我們的

00:32:02and the Navy of Dan.

00:32:28Fire, cat, käse Sugar,

00:32:29forleterious Beatz,

00:32:30a weapon.

00:32:31some distance away the musketeers are captured by their deadliest rivals the Cardinals guard

00:32:52formally arrest the musketeers for continuing to take the law into her own hands

00:32:56disarmed the musketeers are set against the wall for execution

00:33:03your gods would take the lives of my friends single-handed they shall have revenge

00:33:14the Cardinal asks a moment to ponder Constance dead a murderous executed

00:33:22enough blood has been shed now the strife tricks musketeer and guard shall end

00:33:27D'Artagnan's plea saves his friends but there's to be a harsh penalty Richelieu's plan concerns the

00:33:47state and these continuing disputes between his guard and the king's musketeers the four

00:33:53musketeers must separate never to come together again on pain of death his judgment oh a sorry

00:34:01day the musketeers are banished each to his own province never to visit Paris again or set foot

00:34:09beyond the bounds of his own fields

00:34:17as for you D'Artagnan a splendid soldier reliable devoted to you henceforth shall be bodyguard of the future

00:34:28the king beloved of France the nation's one that one fell swoop all strife is done

00:34:38the musketeers prepare for their banishment Godspeed farewell

00:34:44eternal friendship it shall not Paul all for one and one for all

00:34:59five years have passed France is at peace the infant prince grows to boyhood Cardinal Richelieu driven hard by the responsibilities of high

00:35:29the office lives in semi-retirement and a royal father educates his son in courtly etiquette

00:35:36in failing health his eminence lives in 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 he decides he must protect the prince somehow his eminence provides that the rightful twin may always be identified from the other

00:36:03the other

00:36:10with the aid of the court jeweler he caused a gold doubloon to be broken

00:36:15the smaller piece hangs on a chain around the throat of the infant prince

00:36:18and its mate he places about the neck of Captain D'Artagnan

00:36:22and so by joining the pieces the true heir to the throne of the prince's first guardian

00:36:38the prince's first guardian

00:36:43And 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.

00:36:55He 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.

00:37:13A great statesman passes into history.

00:37:27The church loses a noble servant, and the ship of state is without its pilot.

00:37:34What was this secret that Richelieu and Constance shared?

00:37:39The other one.

00:37:43Across 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.

00:38:01Upon the death of Louis XIII, the heir to the throne of the Dauphin, as he was called, became 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.

00:38:52During the years, de Rochefort's connivings have brought the exiled twin under his control.

00:38:59Secretly, they have returned to Paris.

00:39:02De Rochefort has lavished upon the usurper the trappings of royalty, teaching him to copy even the handwriting of his brother, the king.

00:39:09Yet the quality of the spirit so generous in the king is replaced in the brother by hatred and viciousness.

00:39:24The king's vela to Jerushfort's spy 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.

00:39:41The sentries to overpower.

00:39:43The secret approach to the royal apartment.

00:39:46The signals.

00:40:07This very week, de Rochefort tells the pretender, you will be his majesty, Louis XIV, King of France.

00:40:16Louis 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.

00:40:28No two men were ever closer except they were father and son.

00:40:33The king!

00:40:43And the king has survived the king's很有 power!

00:41:00Because the fire is early, D'Artagnan enters the royal bedchamber to bid the king goodbye.

00:41:10Tonight 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.

00:41:30In a glow of happy memories of a delightful evening with the king, Captain D'Artagnan arrives outside his lodging

00:41:57and is amazed to find himself beset by ruffings.

00:42:00Angrily, the Gascon plans his battle.

00:42:03First he deals with the dagger man decoy, sticks him with his own blade,

00:42:06throws 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.

00:42:14Hey-o, on to the balcony.

00:42:27There, they believe, goes D'Artagnan.

00:42:41A thoughtful D'Artagnan returns to his lodging.

00:42:44For a peaceful man to be waylaid on a city street is something new.

00:42:49He had spent the evening with his king.

00:42:53He reflects.

00:42:55Has the palace discipline been slackening too?

00:42:58Sentries were not where they should have been.

00:43:01His soldierly heart is disturbed for the safety of his king.

00:43:06The palace is entered through a servant's postern leading to long-forgotten cellars.

00:43:24Success. No sound. No word. No warning.

00:43:54The 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 signal,

00:44:23ready for the final treasury.

00:44:49And a little after eleven o'clock on this fateful night,

00:44:52in one tragic moment, France loses her rightful king.

00:44:55France loses her rightful king.

00:44:59FirstVES

00:45:04Moon

00:45:08Well.

00:45:10New

00:45:23Uncertain if he dreams or not, King Louis XIV, surrounded by strangers, looks unbelievingly at a venomously mirrored likeness of himself.

00:45:36The usurper watches his royal brother with a lifetime of hate.

00:45:42De Rochefort's plans have been cleverly checked and double-checked.

00:45:46He means to hold the true king a prisoner as a threat over the head of the usurper should he 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.

00:46:15Into the palace cellars a messenger reports breathlessly. D'Artagnan is dead, his body thrown in the river.

00:46:23Complete triumph at last.

00:46:25An 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.

00:46:35The true king is led away.

00:46:36The true king is led away.

00:46:37The true king is led away.

00:46:38The true king is led away.

00:46:39The true king is led away.

00:46:40The true king is led away.

00:46:41The true king is led away.

00:46:42The true king is led away.

00:46:43The true king is led away.

00:46:44The true king is led away.

00:46:45The true king is led away.

00:46:46The true king is led away.

00:46:52The true king is led away.

00:46:53The true king is led away.

00:46:59The true king's bed is occupied by the usurper.

00:47:02The trusted servitors have been spirited away.

00:47:03The twins lackeys have replaced them.

00:47:09The alogie the roites of underground.

00:47:10It is led away.

00:47:11The true king is led away.

00:47:12The true king is led away.

00:47:17The immigrants had returned away.

00:47:37by de Rochefort's lives, by his own poisoned dreams.

00:47:41Truly a madman.

00:47:48Suffering in human life is proportioned to human strength.

00:47:52When the young king, stupefied and crushed,

00:47:55found himself led a prisoner to a cell

00:47:57in the Chateau Sainte-Marguerite in the south of France,

00:48:00he fancied at first that death is like sleep and has its dreams.

00:48:05He believed himself to be a spectator,

00:48:08a palpable phantom of his own suffering,

00:48:11a torture the more terrible since it might be eternal.

00:48:15Eternal death.

00:48:18How can I have died?

00:48:20I am a king, yet not a king, enthroned upon a funereal couch.

00:48:25No. No, dear God, do not punish me who have done nothing.

00:48:30Why am I thus punished?

00:48:33Like a cloak, the chill of the dungeon falls upon his shoulders.

00:48:38So dwells the real Louis XIV in the living hell

00:48:43to remain thus the rest of his days.

00:48:46The Queen Mother, always restricted, prevented from seeing her son,

00:48:59determines finally to pay him a visit.

00:49:01In place of the affectionate and courtly Louis XIV,

00:49:11to her horror she finds herself repulsed.

00:49:14Doubts. Again doubts.

00:49:18What strange malady besets my son.

00:49:23She thinks again of the other one.

00:49:28The Rochefort hurries to the king's apartment,

00:49:31fearful that a mother's heart has sensed the truth.

00:49:33In pretence of humility, he asks the Queen Mother to leave.

00:49:37Affairs of state.

00:49:56To Rochefort is determined.

00:50:00This shall not happen again.

00:50:02And whispers death.

00:50:13Day by day, night upon night, the prisoner prays for some way to get word to D'Artagnan.

00:50:17A heaven sent fisherman hoves to.

00:50:32He finishes scratching a message into pewter.

00:50:34And as all good prayers must be, his prayer is answered.

00:50:46Militant 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 urging.

00:51:16Paris goes about its daily affairs unaware that its rightful king languishes in prison

00:51:29and 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.

00:51:41Day by day, week by week, audience with the king has been refused.

00:51:46The fisherman blurts his weird news.

00:51:49A story hard to believe.

00:51:51A lonely castle which D'Artagnan knows like the palm of his hand.

00:51:54A prisoner in an iron mask behind its bars.

00:51:58But the signature.

00:51:59An etching of a coin that fits his own exactly.

00:52:18Come friend, eat and drink.

00:52:19There is business at last for me at the palace.

00:52:22As a ranger of a pagan palace.

00:52:44Treading his way through the perfumed route of the courts' chattering idlers, D'Artagnan finds himself a stranger in a search.

00:52:50D'Artagnan finds himself a stranger in a strange atmosphere.

00:52:55And there is reason, he thinks, for this curious tension.

00:52:58De Rochefort and the king.

00:53:01This cannot be the boy I helped nurture into manhood.

00:53:04This is not the face of my king. Those are not his hands.

00:53:07That risk neither parried steel nor engaged a point.

00:53:11What's been happening at court?

00:53:13De Rochefort's back in favor?

00:53:15A disgraced exile once more sporting about the throne room in the king's presence?

00:53:19D'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.

00:53:29If he can believe his eyes and all the years he served the king,

00:53:32they never left his royal person.

00:53:35He overhears a snatch of conversation.

00:53:38The other one.

00:53:40And suddenly he hears the dying voice of Constance.

00:53:44The other one.

00:53:46The other one.

00:53:49What did she mean?

00:53:56A message signed by the royal coin.

00:54:01A king, not a king.

00:54:04And 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.

00:54:16Little do they reckon with a resourceful old musketeer.

00:54:37D'Artagnan orders a king's loyal troop to be hurried to meet him at the Chateau San Marguerite.

00:54:52Curriers are to be dispatched to his old friends, the three musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis.

00:55:01To arms musketeers.

00:55:03Your king has need of you.

00:55:05One for all.

00:55:06And all for one.

00:55:13The jig is up.

00:55:14D'Artagnan lives and knows.

00:55:16This pewter plate.

00:55:17Perhaps 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.

00:55:46The puzzle D'Artagnan has reached the Chateau San Marguerite.

00:55:59Certain that his comrades will join him.

00:56:05Under cover of the raging storm he rose to the grotto beneath the castle.

00:56:09Many a time as a young officer he had patrolled his grotto passage.

00:56:12It led, he knew, to the arsenal.

00:56:16Beyond that the armory.

00:56:17Then the main hall and staircase to the tower itself.

00:56:20Up there is the man in the iron mask.

00:56:23The writer of the message.

00:56:36To his astonishment D'Artagnan finds the entrance to the arsenal as newly walled.

00:56:42The old war-horses prepared to hazard it alone if necessary.

00:57:01The 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.

00:57:31Athos, a few years older, a little more grizzled, the same brave companion as of old, ready and willing for any gambit.

00:57:55And now, Aramis.

00:58:01That's quite rare.

00:58:03Oh, my God.

00:58:33Now, two of the valiant comrades have arrived.

00:58:43No time to wait for old Porthos.

00:58:45No time for explanations.

00:58:47There's a job to be done.

00:58:49Forward.

00:58:54Through the racks of gunpowder barrels to the main hall

00:58:57and the tower staircase itself.

00:59:03Where's the prisoner before your gullet tastes this edge,

00:59:27you bloated villain?

00:59:28Come on.

00:59:58At last, D'Artagnan knows the voice.

01:00:08This is true and rightful king, Louis XIV, king of France.

01:00:16The castle guards.

01:00:23The challenge is met.

01:00:25The musketeers fight together again.

01:00:55That got me.

01:01:07This is the merging.

01:01:10Oh, my God.

01:01:40The Battle of Porthos.

01:02:00A little late, but the more eager on that account and thirsty as much for the sight of his companions as for a little drop of blood.

01:02:10The Battle of Porthos.

01:02:40The Battle of Porthos.

01:03:10All for one and one for all.

01:03:23Be certain, cherished friends that I shall wait for you.

01:03:26What good times we had together, eh?

01:03:30Good, Porthos.

01:03:46Farewell.

01:03:47You died as you lived.

01:03:49For love of country.

01:03:51In the service of your king.

01:03:54The 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.

01:05:06A 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.

01:05:27And 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.

01:05:46Cunningly, he says, a private matter.

01:05:46More troops from the palace.

01:06:08Friends or foe?

01:06:12Friends.

01:06:14D'Artagnan breathes relief.

01:06:15The king is safe.

01:06:18God save the king.

01:06:19The queen mother suspects this attempt on her life.

01:06:38The Queen Mother suspects this attempt on her life.

01:06:45The witch's brew,

01:06:48a subtle poison already responsible for many an agonizing death.

01:06:53Raise your glass, madame.

01:06:56Drink to your king, to your country and its illustrious people.

01:07:01Come, I give you France.

01:07:04Dare she refuse?

01:07:07It is the edict of her son, the king.

01:07:14The toast, but a warning cry.

01:07:34The usurper finally gets his rightful crown,

01:07:37to Rochefort's own damnable invention, the iron mask.

01:07:41His to the end of his days.

01:07:44The usurper finally gets his rightful crown,

01:07:47to Rochefort's own damnable invention,

01:07:49the iron mask.

01:07:51His to the end of his days.

01:07:54The usurper takes swift, bitter revenge.

01:08:00As d'Artagnan pours away the poisoned wine,

01:08:04the usurper takes swift, bitter revenge.

01:08:07As D'Artagnan pours away the poisoned wine, the usurper takes swift bitter revenge.

01:08:37D'Artagnan knows himself mortally wounded but allows no sign to mar the happiness of his king.

01:09:07Blood, the weapon of the murderer, with crimson evidence on the blade.

01:09:25Grateful Louis looks for Captain D'Artagnan to honor him with the bateau of a Marshal of France.

01:09:33But where is the musketeer?

01:09:45The court resounds with the king's commands and his cry to find his friend and mentor.

01:09:53What a man may think when he knows of the approach of death is secret between himself and his maker.

01:09:59Perhaps the gallant musketeer thinks most of his lost love, Constance.

01:10:05And 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 one.

01:10:15How can they die, these bright ones?

01:10:19How may such energy, once released, be prisoned by earth or stone or grave?

01:10:25We die as we lived, say they, with life.

01:10:28And with life, how can there be death?

01:10:31Only remember us.

01:10:32Only open a little book and we shall always be with you.

01:10:35To ride a fine horse or to cross a sharp blade or carouse with a barrel or dally with a maid.

01:10:40Come one, come all.

01:10:44And so passed a brave and glorious man in honor.

01:10:51Only think and we live again.

01:10:53We live forever.

01:10:54For with us, now as ever, it's one for all and all for one.

01:11:04And thus it was in France of old and fiery days when hearts beat high,

01:11:07When blood was young and hate was bold and sword crossed sword to do.

01:11:11And so passed a brave and glorious man in honor.

01:11:14For love and honor gloried then when life was life and men were men.

01:11:44The End

01:12:06The End

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