 Alan Hale Jr. (qv) plays the son of Porthos here. His father,  Alan Hale (I) (qv), appeared in  _Man in the Iron Mask, The (1939)_ (qv) as an aging Porthos. When  that film was remade as _Fifth Musketeer, The (1979)_ (qv), that  role was taken by Alan Hale Jr. (qv) In that same movie the role  of an aging DArtagnan was played by Cornel Wilde (qv), this  pictures son of DArtagnan. Also here, the elderly Porthos is  played by Moroni Olsen (qv), who played that character in his  younger days in the film of the original Dumas novel,  _Three Musketeers, The (1935)_ (qv).