Ralph Richardson credited as playing...
Colbert
- D'Artagnan: I only have a handful of men. Brave musketeers, true, but not enough of them to take a fortress. But - we can always try.
- Colbert de Voliere: Not by force, my friend. By cunning.
- D'Artagnan: He's haunted by the mystery, it would be an act of mercy to let him know.
- Colbert de Voliere: We must say nothing yet.
- D'Artagnan: We should tell him his true identity.
- Colbert de Voliere: You and I are flirting with high treason, my friend. Let Phillipe remain ignorant for his own sake, as well as our own. The rack can loosen any man's tongue - even that of a Prince.
- Phillipe: As the first born, am I not the rightful heir?
- Colbert de Voliere: Right or wrong has little to do with this; it's a matter of political necessity.
- Colbert de Voliere: We must not act
- [looks meaningfully at D'Artagnan]
- Colbert de Voliere: impetuously.
- D'Artagnan: Impetuously!