The Three Musketeers is a 1921 American silent film based on the 1844 novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père. It was directed by Fred Niblo and stars Douglas Fairbanks as d'Artagnan. The film originally had scenes filmed in the Handschiegl Color Process (billed as the "Wyckoff-DeMille Process").[2] The film had a sequel, The Iron Mask (1929), also starring Fairbanks as d'Artagnan and DeBrulier as Cardinal Richelieu.

The Three Musketeers
Léon Bary, Eugene Pallette, Douglas Fairbanks and George Siegmann
Directed by	Fred Niblo
Written by	Edward Knoblock (adaptation) Douglas Fairbanks Lotta Woods (screenplay)
Based on	The Three Musketeers1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas
Produced by	Douglas Fairbanks
Starring	Douglas Fairbanks Leon Bary George Siegmann Eugene Pallette Boyd Irwin Marguerite De La Motte
Cinematography	Arthur Edeson
Edited by	Nellie Mason
Music by	Louis F. Gottschalk
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	August 28, 1921 (1921-08-28)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent film English intertitles
Box office	$1.5 million[1]

Production

The athletic Douglas Fairbanks's one-handed handspring to grab a sword during a fight scene in this film is considered one of the great stunts of the early cinema period. Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance enthuses, "The Three Musketeers was the first of the grand Fairbanks costume films, filled with exemplary production values and ornamentation. Indeed, one ornament extended beyond the film: Fairbanks wore d'Artagnan's moustache—cultivated for The Three Musketeers—to the end of his life. With The Three Musketeers, he at last found his metier and crystallized his celebrity and his cinema."[3]

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  Front row: Charles Stevens, Marguerite De La Motte, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford (guest), Sidney Franklin. Second row: Boyd Irwin, Nigel De Brulier, Mary MacLaren, Adolphe Menjou, Barbara La Marr, Thomas Holding. Back row: Lon Poff, Eugene Pallette, George Siegmann, Léon Bary, Willis Robards.

Cast

In opening credits order:

• Adolphe Menjou as Louis XIII
• Mary MacLaren as Anne of Austria
• Nigel De Brulier as Cardinal Richelieu
• Thomas Holding as Duke of Buckingham
• Marguerite De La Motte as Constance Bonacieux
• Willis Robards as Captain de Treville
• Boyd Irwin as Comte de Rochefort
• Barbara La Marr as Milady de Winter
• Lon Poff as Father Joseph
• Walt Whitman as d'Artagnan's Father
• Sidney Franklin as Bonacieux
• Charles Belcher as Bernajoux
• Charles Stevens as Planchet
• Léon Bary as Athos
• George Siegmann as Porthos
• Eugene Pallette as Aramis
• Douglas Fairbanks as d'Artagnan

Preservation status

In April 1939, Fairbanks donated his entire film collection to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), including both a 35mm nitrate negative and a tinted positive print. The negative was duplicated in 1963, and this print was used for the restoration completed in May 2017 by MoMA, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, and Film Preservation Society. MoMA and Image Protection Services also finished a color restoration in February 2021.[4]

References

External links

• Media related to The Three Musketeers (1921 film) at Wikimedia Commons
• The full text of The Three Musketeers (1921 film) at Wikisource
• The Three Musketeers (1921) on YouTube
• The Three Musketeers (Remastered) (1921) on YouTube
• The Three Musketeers at IMDb
• The Three Musketeers is available for free download at the Internet Archive
• The Three Musketeers at AllMovie
• The Three Musketeers at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Color poster

На других языках

[ru] Три мушкетёра (фильм, 1921)