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28 August 1921 (USA)
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The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is...
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Fun, entertaining silent swashbuckler gives us a skeleton of the Musketeer novel.
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Cast
(in credits order) | Douglas Fairbanks | ... | Roland D'Artagnan |
 | Léon Bary | ... | Athos (as Leon Barry) |
| George Siegmann | ... | Porthos |
| Eugene Pallette | ... | Aramis |
| Boyd Irwin | ... | Comte de Rochefort |
| Thomas Holding | ... | Duke of Buckingham |
| Sidney Franklin | ... | Monsieur Alphonse Bonacieux |
| Charles Stevens | ... | Planchet |
| Nigel De Brulier | ... | Cardinal Duke of Richelieu |
| Willis Robards | ... | Captain de Treville |
| Lon Poff | ... | Father Joseph |
| Mary MacLaren | ... | Queen Anne of Austria |
| Marguerite De La Motte | ... | Constance Bonacieux |
 | Barbara La Marr | ... | Milady de Winter |
| Walt Whitman | ... | D'Artagnan's Father |
 | Adolphe Menjou | ... | Louis XIII, King of France |
| Charles Belcher | ... | Bernajoux |
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| Granville Redmond | ||
| Janet Chandler | ... | Child (uncredited) |
| Dorothy Dorr | ... | Noblewoman with Mask (uncredited) |
 | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | ... | Boy (uncredited) |
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| Fred Niblo | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Alexandre Dumas père | novel "Les trois mousquetaires" | |
| Douglas Fairbanks | ||
| Edward Knoblock | adaptation | |
| Lotta Woods | ||
Produced by | |||
| Douglas Fairbanks | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Brian Benison | (1996) | ||
| Louis F. Gottschalk | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Arthur Edeson | |||
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| Nellie Mason | |||
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| Edward M. Langley | |||
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| Paul Burns | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| George Westmore | .... | makeup artist | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Doran Cox | .... | assistant director | |
Art Department | |||
| Harry Edwards | .... | master of properties | |
| Willie Hopkins | .... | sculptor | |
Stunts | |||
| Richard Talmadge | .... | stunts | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Albert Wayne | .... | electrician | |
Other crew | |||
| Frank England | .... | technical director | |
| Douglas Fairbanks | .... | presenter | |
| H.J. Utterhore | .... | fencing instructor | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- United Artists (1921) (USA) (theatrical)
- United Artists Film-Verleih (1928) (Germany) (theatrical)
- Grapevine Video (????) (USA) (VHS)
- Kino Video (2004) (USA) (DVD)
- Kino Video (????) (USA) (VHS)
- REX Film (2006) (Germany) (DVD)
- Reel Media International (2004) (worldwide) (video)
- Reel Media International (2007) (worldwide) (all media)
- Sunrise Silents (2004) (worldwide) (DVD)
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119 min
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Black and White | Color (Wyckoff-DeMill Color) (some sequences)
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Alexandre Dumas père's source for his novel was a book by 19th-century writer Courtils de Sandraz, which was purporting to be D'Artagnan's biography; the Musketeers were actually real people, not fictional characters created by Dumas.See more »
Quotes:
Cardinal Richelieu:If you were about to die, what would you do?
D'Artagnan:Your Eminence, I should write the history of France.
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D'Artagnan:Your Eminence, I should write the history of France.
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Featured in "Hollywood: Hazard of the Game (#1.5)" (1980)See more »
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D'Artangan (Douglas Fairbanks) goes up against his rival Richelieu (Adolphe Menjou), with the help of his Musketeer friends. There is a plot, something to do with the Queen, but don't ask me what it was.
Like most film adaptations of long (in this case about as long as War and Peace, like all other Dumas books) novels, a lot has been simplified and left out, yet the plot is still hard to follow! This means that people who've read the book complain about the missing parts, and people who haven't read it, complain they can't follow the movie! For this reason, i don't know why anybody ever adapts long novels. In this case, the appeal of the swordplay and romance is a well justified reason for putting these characters onscreen.
Like many entertainment-driven silents, it is impossible to delve too deeply into character, let alone themes - so what we have feels like a fairly empty and superficial version of an epic story.
Enjoyable Fairbanks vehicle is just a piece of fluff, the silent era equivalent of Pirates of the Caribbean - which is no small achievement. It has genuine sword-swishing action, and the dashing and charismatic Fairbanks - who makes for both great comic relief, and a great hero.
Highlight: there is some sparkling little samples of dialogue (title cards), which were unexpectedly hilarious. Mainly in D'Artangan's scenes.
7/10.