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




Plot summary


In the royal court of France, Cardinal Richelieu vies for influence over King Louis XIII. The greatest obstacle to his dominance is Anne of Austria, the Queen of France. Anne is loved by the Duke of Buckingham, an Englishman, although she remains faithful to Louis. Louis gives her a diamond encrusted brooch.
In Gascony, d'Artagnan leaves his home to seek his fortune. He travels to Paris, where he meets the Three Musketeers. The Three Musketeers and d'Artagnan cause trouble around Paris and frequently fight with Cardinal Richelieu's guardsmen. d'Artagnan falls in love with Constance, the Queen's seamstress.
Cardinal Richelieu forges a letter from Anne to the Duke of Buckingham inviting him to Paris. The Duke arrives, but Anne gently rebuffs him. He requests something to remember her by. Anne gives the Duke her diamond brooch and he returns to England. Richelieu manipulates the King into asking Anne to wear the brooch at an upcoming ball.
Knowing the Queen will be dishonored if the brooch is discovered missing, Constance asks d'Artagnan to retrieve the brooch from England. d'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers depart for England. Richelieu discovers d'Artagnan's mission and sends his agents to stop him. One by one the Three Musketeers stay behind to prevent d'Artagnan from falling into the Cardinal's traps. d'Artagnan sails to England and retrieves the brooch. He arrives back in Paris to deliver the brooch to Queen Anne. d'Artagnan, Constance, and the Three Musketeers are reunited. d'Artagnan is made a member of the King's Musketeers.




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




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."









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.




See also


List of early color feature films




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 viewing and download at the Internet Archive
The Three Musketeers at AllMovie
The Three Musketeers at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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