Description

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 starred 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.
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.

Cast

• Douglas Fairbanks as d’Artagnan
• Léon Bary as Athos (fictional character)
• George Siegmann as Porthos
• Eugene Pallette as Aramis
• Boyd Irwin as Comte de Rochefort
• Thomas Holding as Duke of Buckingham
• Sidney Franklin as Monsieur Bonacieux
• Charles Stevens (actor) as Planchet
• Nigel De Brulier as Cardinal Richelieu
• Willis Robards as Captain de Treville
• Lon Poff as Father Joseph
• Mary MacLaren as Anne of Austria
• Marguerite De La Motte as Constance Bonacieux
• Barbara La Marr as Milady de Winter
• Walt Whitman as d’Artagnan’s Father
• Adolphe Menjou as Louis XIII
• Charles Belcher (actor) as Bernajoux