A young man named d'Artagnan leaves home to travel to Paris, with the intention to join the Musketeers.

Although d'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age — Athos, Porthos and Aramis — and gets involved in affairs of the state and court.

[3] Hirsch also highlighted the fourteen separately staged fights, and praised Peter Raby for an "extraordinary achievement of condensing the whole novel into two hours".

[2] The Calgary Herald said "watching the film wasn't what you would call a chore ... it was fast paced and overloaded with action ... the story was almost secondary ... it was the swashbuckling that really mattered".

[3] The Toronto Star criticized the film, saying, "where film has so often failed to capture the spectacle, the action, the intrigue, the ardor, and above all the plumed and extravagant glamor, why expect television to succeed ... bringing the Stratford National Theatre production of the Three Musketeers to the small screen, CBC-TV provided a fatiguing demonstration of the perfectly obvious".