The Beatles turned down a comedy film version of Alexander Dumas's classic novel with Brigitte Bardot slated as the female lead. Richard Lester, the director of Help! and A Hard Day's Night, went on direct a 1974 version of the film. a. The Three Musketeers b. Shades of a Personality c. Up Against It d. A Talent For Loving e. The Yellow Teddybears

The Beatles turned down a comedy film version of Alexander Dumas's classic novel called "THE THREE MUSKETEERS".

Therefore option A is the correct answer.

Explanation: The musketeers is a popular novel written by a french author called Alexander Dumas which was published in the year 1844. Accordance to the novel, the three musketeers are Athos, parthos, and Aramis.

The story line of the novel has been used to act 24 version of movies called the three musketeers. The first version of this movies was acted in the year 1903 by a french production, while the latest version was acted in 2011, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, and produced Paul W.S. Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, and Robert Kulzer.

The 1973 version of the three musketeers, brought in another version in 1974 called the four musketeers, which are adapted to each other, the movie has its story from Alexander Dumas novel called the three musketeers, the movie was turned downed by the Beatle which has initial interest in producing the movie.The movie features Michael York, Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain, Spike Milligan, and Richard Lester as the director.