The Three Musketeers (1921 film)

The Three Musketeers

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
Release dates
  • August 28, 1921 (1921-08-28)
Running time
 120 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent film
English intertitles
Box office $1.5 million[1]

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").[2] The film had a sequel, The Iron Mask (1929), also starring Fairbanks as d'Artagnan and DeBrulier as Cardinal Richelieu.

Production

The Three Musketeers (1921)

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."[3]

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Balio, Tino (2009). United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-23004-3. p42
  2. ↑ "The Three Musketeers". Silent Era. Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. 2015. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
  3. ↑ Vance, Jeffrey. Douglas Fairbanks (2008). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0520256675.
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