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Released
1979 · FILM

The Fifth Musketeer

Pure adventure is back...for the fun of it!

Directed by
Runtime
116 min
ActionAdventureRomance

Synopsis

King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediately locks up his brother in the Bastille. The king wants to increase his popularity and stages an assassination against himself where Philippe is dressed as king Louis. But Philippe manages to escape the assassination and everybody believes him to be the real king...

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Malcolm CookeShot by Jack CardiffScored by Riz OrtolaniDesigned by Elliot Scott

Box Office

1979 · Box office

Produced on a $7.0M budget

Production budget

$7.0M

Also known as

  • Das Geheimnis der eisernen Maskede
  • El quinto mosqueteroes
  • Le Cinquième Mousquetairefr

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