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The Three Musketeers

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Leaving his country village, D'Artagnan (Douglas Fairbanks) heads to Paris in hopes of becoming a musketeer. Soon after, he meets three of them -- Athos (Leon Barry), Porthos (George Siegmann) and Aramis (Eugene Pallette) -- and joins their struggle to defend Queen Anne (Mary MacLaren) against the devious Cardinal Richelieu (Nigel De Brulier). The cardinal's been scheming to expose Anne's infidelity by stealing a brooch she gave her lover (Thomas Holding), and the musketeers vow to get it first.

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Variety Staff Variety There is a flare and sweep about the film, with the assembling, cutting and continuity seeming spotlessly correct. Douglas Fairbanks and D'Artagnan are a happy combination. Mar 26, 2009 Full Review Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Exuberantly embraces the melodramatic absurdities of Dumas's moral universe [though] Don Q Son of Zorro did better with this kind of sophisticated European intrigue. Rated: B- Oct 10, 2005 Full Review Carl Sandburg Chicago Daily News As a spectacle photodrama that cost a million dollars, The Three Musketeers is not much ahead, if at all, of other million dollar spectacle photodramas which have passed before our eyes in recent months and years. Mar 28, 2022 Full Review Robert E. Sherwood LIFE As for the rest of the production, The Three Musketeers is well worthy of its story and its star. Oct 5, 2021 Full Review Harriette Underhill New York Tribune The Three Musketeers is a thrilling, gripping, unadulterated success. Nov 7, 2019 Full Review Francisco J. Ariza Cine-Mundial A very long and very entertaining comedy in the style of Chaplin. [Full Review in Spanish] Sep 9, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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jordan m The first act of this movie made for tough sledding as there was a ton of exposition and they did it in a pretty rudimentary way, doing nothing to avoid excessive dialogue scenes & instead spending half the screentime showing intertitles of what the characters were saying. My wife wasn't wearing her glasses so I felt like I'd just cracked open the book from the 1840s & started reading it to her instead of pulling up a Fairbanks movie. That said, once the rising action began the movie really became quite enjoyable as the sword fights were good, Fairbanks's athleticism was certainly on display and even the music, which was somewhat invasive in the dialogue scenes, did a good job reaching crescendo where it coincided with what was happening on screen. I did find it odd that there was very little if any camera movement as several of the principals had worked with D. W. Griffith, who had pioneered camera movement in the previous decade. In all this was far from the worst silent movie we've seen and I'm looking forward to the 1929 sequel! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member good silent version of this often told tale. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member This 3 Musketeers movie is just like all the others, no surprises here, it's no better and no worse than any other. Overall it is pretty fun and entertaining, but it's long and has a bunch of boring scenes with the queen and duke and other characters. It could have been better. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Barbara La Marr was a great deal of naughty fun in this romp through a very theatrical Paris. The fight scenes were nifty, but the film as a whole was a good thirty minutes longer than it needed to be. Still, I'm glad I finally got to see it, and I can't help but smile when Doug does his athletic buckling of swash. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member See it for the stunts alone. Douglas Fairbanks was the Jackie Chan of his time. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Another 1920's Douglas Fairbanks film worth seeing. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Leaving his country village, D'Artagnan (Douglas Fairbanks) heads to Paris in hopes of becoming a musketeer. Soon after, he meets three of them -- Athos (Leon Barry), Porthos (George Siegmann) and Aramis (Eugene Pallette) -- and joins their struggle to defend Queen Anne (Mary MacLaren) against the devious Cardinal Richelieu (Nigel De Brulier). The cardinal's been scheming to expose Anne's infidelity by stealing a brooch she gave her lover (Thomas Holding), and the musketeers vow to get it first.
Director
Fred Niblo
Producer
Douglas Fairbanks
Screenwriter
Alexandre Dumas, Douglas Fairbanks, Edward Knoblock, Lotta Woods
Distributor
United Artists
Production Co
Douglas Fairbanks Pictures
Genre
Adventure
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 28, 1921, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 30, 2016
Runtime
2h 0m
Aspect Ratio
Academy (1.33:1)
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