The Three Musketeers is the ultimate adventure story by one of the most widely read French writers.

It's been adapted into scores of plays.And it's the original buddy picture, an enduring story that has been turned into some 100 movies, from a 1903 silent French film to the 1948 version with Gene Kelly and Lana Turner to the trio of '70s and '80s romps by A Hard Day's Night director Richard Lester.