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Movie Detail Name Occurs Before Title Offscreen Credit Print Viewed By AFI Stub Record The Three Musketeers Director: Fred Niblo (Dir) Release Date:   1921 Premiere Information:   New York premiere: 28 Aug 1921 Duration (in feet):   11,700 Duration (in reels):   12 Print this page Display Movie Summary Available Formats Facets DVD VHS LaserDisk Grapevine DVD VHS LaserDisk Image DVD VHS LaserDisk Kino DVD VHS LaserDisk Nostalgia Family Video DVD VHS LaserDisk Cast:   Douglas Fairbanks (D'Artagnan)       Leon Barry (Athos)       George Siegmann (Porthos)       Eugene Pallette (Aramis)       Boyd Irwin (De Rocheford)       Thomas Holding (George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham)       Sidney Franklin (Bonacieux)       Charles Stevens (Planchet, D'Artagnan's lackey)       Nigel De Brulier (Cardinal Richelieu)       Willis Robards (Captain de Treville)       Lon Poff (Father Joseph)       Mary MacLaren (Queen [Anne of Austria])       Marguerite De La Motte (Constance Bonacieux)       Barbara La Marr (Milady de Winter)       Walt Whitman (D'Artagnan's father)       Adolphe Menjou (Louis XIII, King of France)       Charles Belcher (Bernajoux)   Summary: Cardinal Richelieu, engaged in intrigue at the court of Louis XIII, attempts to rule by threatening the queen, who is secretly in love with the Duke of Buckingham. From Gascony comes D'Artagnan to join the King's Musketeers in his quest for adventure. He wins the right to membership by proving his prowess with the sword and forms an eternal alliance with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, the Three Musketeers. After many adventures, he embarks on a dangerous mission to England to recover a diamond brooch, a gift of the king, which the queen has given to Buckingham as a token of affection. He recovers it and returns in time to save the queen from the wrath of Louis, defeat the cardinal's intrigue, and win Constance, the queen's seamstress.  Production Company: Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corp.   Distribution Company: United Artists   Director: Fred Niblo (Dir)   Doran Cox (Asst dir) Producer: Douglas Fairbanks (Pres) Writer: Edward Knoblock (Adpt)   Lotta Woods (Scenario ed) Photography: Arthur Edeson (Dir of photog) Art Direction: Edward M. Langley (Art dir)   Frank England (Tech dir) Film Editor: Nellie Mason (Film ed) Costumes: Paul Burns (Master of cost) Music: Louis F. Gottschalk (Mus score) Production Misc: Harry Edwards (Props)   Albert Wayne (Elec) Country: United States Language: English Source Text: Based on the novel Les trois mousquetaires by Alexandre Dumas, père (Paris, 1844). Authors: Alexandre Dumas père Copyright Claimant Copyright Date Copyright Number Douglas Fairbanks Pictures 13/9/1921 dd/mm/yyyy LP16959 Physical Properties: b&w:   Si:   Genre: Romance Sub-Genre: Historical   Subjects (Major): Adventurers   Anne, Queen, Consort of Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1666   Blackmail   France--History--17th century   Infidelity   Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643   Loyalty   Musketeers   Richelieu, Armand-Jean du Plessis, Cardinal, duc de, 1585-1642   Royalty Note: For information on other films based on the Alexander Dumas novel, please consult the entry for the 1948 M-G-M production of The Three Musketeers , directed by George Sidney and starring Gene Kelly and Lana Turner (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1941-50 ).  Bibliographic Sources:   Date   Page Film Daily   4 Sep 1921   p. 2. New York Times   29 Aug 1921   p. 14. Photoplay   Nov 1921   p. 60. Variety   2 Sep 1921   p. 61. Display Movie Summary

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