The Three Musketeers

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.