The Three Musketeers (1921 film)
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| Directed by | Fred Niblo |
| Produced by | Douglas Fairbanks |
| Written by |
Alexandre Dumas (novel) Edward Knoblock (adaptation) Douglas Fairbanks Lotta Woods (screenplay) |
| Starring | Douglas Fairbanks Leon Bary George Siegmann Eugene Pallette Boyd Irwin Marguerite De La Motte |
| Music by | Louis F. Gottschalk |
| Cinematography | Arthur Edeson |
| Edited by | Nellie Mason |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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120 minutes |
| Country | United States |
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Silent film English intertitles |
| Box office | $1.5 million |
The Three Musketeers is a 1921 American silent film based on the 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"). The film had a sequel, The Iron Mask (1929), also starring Fairbanks as d'Artagnan and DeBrulier as Cardinal Richelieu.
The athletic Douglas Fairbanks's one-handed handspring to grab a sword during a fight scene in this film is considered as 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."
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.
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