Heston could be a brilliant actor at times.
Watch Richard Lester's 1973 "The Three Musketeers" and it's sibling film (which was shot at the same time) "the Four Musketeers", Heston plays Cardinal Richelieu very subtly. Awesome flick, in my top five. The cast has Heston, Raquel Welch, Micheal York, Oliver Reed in a memorable turn as Athos, Christopher Lee as a deliciously vile Comte de Rochefort, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain, Faye Dunaway...alternately humorous and heroic, with a clumsy Welch and York lending their characters a lot of humanity while still filling their roles to the max (and Welch's dress to the max). Fun films.
And did I mention Raquel Welch?
