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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1921 DVD Release: 05/18/1999 Format: DVD - Black and White Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 58 mins Studio: Image Entertainment Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Adventure, Swashbuckler, Costume Adventure See Also: The Three Musketeers

Douglas Fairbanks' longest and most elaborate production up to 1921, The Three Musketeers was Fairbanks' first full-blown costume adventure (his modestly produced 1920 The Mark of Zorro was regarded as an extension of his breezy contemporary comedies). Fairbanks assumes the leading role of D'Artagnan, who after challenging musketeers Athos (Leon Barry), Porthos (George Siegmann) and Aramis (Eugene Pallette--yes, Eugene Pallette) to a duel, joins forces with them in opposition of the scheming Cardinal Richelieu(Nigel De Brulier). Plotting to discredit Queen Anne (Mary McLaren) in the eyes of her husband King Louis XIII (Adolphe Menjou) Richelieu dispatches Milady de Winter (Barbara La Marr) to pilfer the diamond brooch given by Anne to her British lover, the Duke of Buckingham (Thomas Holding). With the help of the lovely Constance (Marguerite de la Motte) D'Artagnan and the Musketeers race against time to retrieve the brooch and save their Queen. The film ends with D'Artagnan emerging victorious, a twinkle in his eye and a smile on his lips; the actual, darker denouement of Dumas' original Three Musketeers would be dramatized in the opening reels of Douglas Fairbanks' valedictory silent film, The Iron Mask (1929). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Douglas Fairbanks - D'Artagnan
Leon Bary - Athos
George Siegmann - Porthos
Eugene Pallette - Aramis
Marguerite de la Motte - Constance Bonacieux
Boyd Irwin - De Rocheford

The 1921 silent version of The Three Musketeers comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence, but fans of the lost art form of silent film should greatly enjoy this DVD. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide