Ooooh, I'm SO happy you're a fan of the '73 version, one of the best movies EVER in my opinion. So hilarious, so well done. I adore Richard Lester's directorial style (I was a huge Beatles fan and saw A Hard Days Night about fifteen times in the theater), and Michael York -- holy cats, was he funny or what? And Raquel Welch? I remember the night we saw it in the theater, one of the best movie-going experiences ever.
Heh, maybe not as much as a fan (not as for PotC, for sure), but every other version I remember was, hmm, too plain and Hollywoodish. The '73 had such a specific flavour, so autoironical. All in all it was more screwball comedy (the king counting the diamonds in the dance! :D ) than Oh-So-Heroic-Action-Movie. And characters! York was perfectly brave and silly, eager and green, honourable and naive. Raquel was born for costume. And there was the best Milady ever.
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