Los tres mosqueteros

Los tres mosqueteros (1942) is a Mexican film directed by Miguel M. Delgado. In this version of The Three Musketeers, the comedian Cantinflas portrays D'Artagnan.

Usually, Cantinflas plays bumbling, inept characters. So it's a stretch for him to be D'Artagnan. However, if you think about the novel, D'Artagnan is from the countryside. The three musketeers are Parisian sophisticates but he isn't. In that sense, it isn't quite so far a stretch.

Director Delgado sticks to the plot. Of course, The Three Musketeers is a great adventure story, so the movie works on that basis. It's hardly a masterpiece, but it's an interesting and unusual adaptation.

The film has a dismal IMDb rating of 6.4. I thought that it was better than that, and rated it 7.