Trivia / The Three Musketeers (1961)

• Awesome, Dear Boy: Mylène Demongeot didn't care about the low pay she got for playing Milady, as all she wanted was to play that role.
• California Doubling:
  • The scenes taking place in the streets of 17th century Paris were filmed in other French locations that still looked old enough, such as the medieval town of Pérouges.
  • The castle of La Roche Goyon, better known as Fort la Latte, which is situated in Brittany, France, was used as John Felton's English castle in Seconde époque - La Vengeance de Milady.
• Creator Backlash: Mylène Demongeot loved playing in these films, but she later pointed out how the script was yet again a Compressed Adaptation, and more specifically that her Milady lacked a great deal of her book counterpart's characterization, her eroticism in particular.
• Dawson Casting: As is often the case, the eighteen year old D'Artagnan is played by an older actor — Gérard Barray was nearing thirty when the film was made.
• Hey, It's That Place!: The aforementioned castle Fort la Latte was used three years before at the beginning and during the climax of Richard Fleischer's The Vikings. And it's been since used for yet another adaptation of The Three Musketeers, the 2023 one.
• No Port For You: The two films have been released on DVD in Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain... but never in the country it was made in — France, oddly enough. Luckily, these tend to include the French version (with subtitles).
• Production Posse: Gérard Barray and director Bernard Borderie would collaborate again on the Pardaillan swashbuckler film series.
• Promoted Fangirl: Mylène Demongeot was a huge fan of Alexandre Dumas' novels, and Milady de Winter was her favorite character out of them all. She lobbied hard to get the role when she learned of this production, and obtained it, even accepting a ridiculously low paycheck.

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