title: The Three Musketeers (1969 film)
text: # The Three Musketeers (1969 film)
  
  The Three Musketeers is a 1969 television film based on the 1844 novel The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) by Alexandre Dumas. It stars Kenneth Welsh as d'Artagnan. The Three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, are played by Powys Thomas, James Blendick and Colin Fox. Academy Award-winner actor Christopher Walken makes a very early film appearance as Felton.
  
  ## Premise
  
  A young man named d'Artagnan leaves home to travel to Paris, with the intention to join the Musketeers. Although d'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age — Athos, Porthos and Aramis — and gets involved in affairs of the state and court.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Colin Fox as Aramis
  * Powys Thomas as Athos
  * Kenneth Welsh as d'Artagnan
  * James Blendick as Porthos
  * Leo Ciceri as Cardinal Richelieu
  * Martha Henry as Lady Sabine DeWinter
  * Christopher Walken as John Felton
  * Eric Donkin as (King) Louis XIV
  