The three musketeers (1921)

The cast of The Three Musketeers (1921); Names of actors and roles on the picture description page.

Movie
German title	The three musketeers
Original title	The Three Musketeers
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1921
length	118 minutes
Rod
Director	Fred Niblo
script	Douglas Fairbanks Edward Knoblock Lotta Woods
production	Douglas Fairbanks
camera	Arthur Edeson
cut	Nellie Mason
occupation
Douglas Fairbanks : D'Artagnan Adolphe Menjou : Louis VIII. Mary MacLaren : Anna of Austria Nigel De Brulier : Cardinal Richelieu Thomas Holding : Duke of Buckingham Marguerite De La Motte : Constance Willis Robards : De Treville Boyd Irwin : Rochefort Barbara La Marr : My Lady De Winter Lon Poff : Father Josef Walt Whitman : D'Artagnan's father Sidney Franklin : Bonachteau Charles Belcher : Bernajoux Charles Stevens : Planchet Leon Bary : Athos George Siegmann : Porthos Eugene Pallette : Aramis

The three Musketeers (original title: The Three Musketeers ) is an American coat-and-sword film by Fred Niblo from 1921. The silent film is based on the famous novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas the Elder and was a great success. It was Douglas Fairbanks' first major costume film .

action

D'Artagnan gets into a duel with Athos, Porthos and Aramis, but becomes friends with them. Together they try to thwart Cardinal Richelieu's plan to discredit the Queen. The Cardinal sent Lady De Winter to obtain a brooch that the Queen gave to the Duke of Buckingham.

literature

• Alexandre Dumas : The Three Musketeers. Roman (= dtv 13766). (Original title: Les trois mousquetaires ). Translated from the French by August Zoller , revised by Michaela Meßner. With an afterword by Joachim Schultz. New edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-13766-9 .
• Kevin Brownlow : pioneers of film. From silent films to Hollywood. = The parade's gone by ... Stroemfeld, Basel et al. 1997, ISBN 3-87877-386-2 .
• Robert K. Klepper: Silent Films, 1877-1996. A Critical Guide to 646 Movies. McFarland, Jefferson NC et al. 1999, ISBN 0-7864-0595-3 .

Web links

• The Three Musketeers in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kevin Brownlow: Pioneers of Film. 1997, p. 298.