Unless you're a die-hard fan of Spaghetti Westerns generally and Spaghetti Western comedies in particular, The Three Musketeers of the West (Tutti per uno... botte per tutti or, roughly, "All for One...Punches for All," 1973) is pretty unendurable. And yet this reviewer is delighted to see it legitimately released anyway, if for no other reason than for the glimpse it offers into the crazed minds of Italian and Spanish producers and what they imagined international audiences were looking for in a Euro-Western in 1973, just as the genre was entering its death throes.

Dorado Films' presentation is generally good though the aspect ratio, like some of their other releases, is on the funky side. And while Italian and Spanish audio is provided along with the English-dubbed version, the Italian and Spanish tracks aren't supported by English subtitles.

　

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Dorado Films has released 1973's comedy Spaghetti Western, The Three Musketeers of the West (Tutti Per Uno...Botte Per Tutti, which Babel Fish translated for me as, "All For One...Blows For All"). A very mild, very loose reworking of Dumas' famous novel, The Three Musketeers of the West came out during the very last stages of the Spaghetti Western cycle (or Westerns All'Italiana), when comedy had overtaken and eventually choked the life out of the genre, and, when everything else failed to rejuvenate the form, martial arts elements were worked into the traditional All'Italiana plots (the genre that replaced Spaghetti Westerns in grindhouses and drive-ins all over the world). As such, The Three Musketeers of the West is a pretty childish outing, with lots of silly slapstick and broad mugging, which no doubt will appeal to kids or to genre completists...Read the entire review

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