The Three Musketeers (1921)

Directed by

Fred Niblo

Genre

action film, silent film, swashbuckler film, adventure film, melodrama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 59m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 34 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man named d'Artagnan travels to Paris to join the king's musketeers. He teams up with three veteran swordsmen to foil a plot against the queen.

swashbucklinglivelyadventurousdramaticfast-pacedlightheartedheroicromantic

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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