after view this film i wind up scratch my head with so many question of how this thing ever get make in the first place . firstly three year before there be a straight dramatic version of the three musketeer that star walter abel a dartagnan by rko . that film be well receive although it do not transform abel into a leading man . why darryl zanuck make another version so soon be beyond me . secondly rudolph friml write a fine operetta of the three musketeer in the 20 . the score here by walter bulloch and samuel pokrass be singularly unmemorable . who know why friml music wasn not use and but it should have be . zanuck have the ideal dartagnan on his lot in tyrone power . but since power do not sing and don ameche always get sloppy second in role at fox and he get the part . poor ameche and he try his best and he even get into the comic element of the film and but it no good . at year 2004 very few people know of the ritz brother . they be good burlesque comedian who zanuck sign up . their humor be of the three stooge variety and but each stooge have an individual personality . you can not tell one ritz from the other . in the film they take the place of the real athos and porthos and and aramis and they and ameche bungle their way into one situation after another . of the woman in the cast i have to say that binnie barnes a milady dewinter get into the spirit of the slapstick with the ritz . it a mess this film and but more so when you think that a straight musical with the friml score could have be do and now probably never will and a version with ty power a dartagnan would have be a classic .