The Three Musketeers | |
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Directed by | Fred Niblo |
Written by | Edward Knoblock (adaptation) Douglas Fairbanks Lotta Woods (screenplay) |
Based on | The Three Musketeers 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas |
Produced by | Douglas Fairbanks |
Starring | Douglas Fairbanks Leon Bary George Siegmann Eugene Pallette Boyd Irwin Marguerite De La Motte |
Cinematography | Arthur Edeson |
Edited by | Nellie Mason |
Music by | Louis F. Gottschalk |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
Box office | $1.5 million[1] |
The Three Musketeers is a 1921 American silent film based on the 1844 novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père. It was directed by Fred Niblo and stars Douglas Fairbanks as d'Artagnan. The film originally had scenes filmed in the Handschiegl Color Process (billed as the "Wyckoff-DeMille Process").[2] The film had a sequel, The Iron Mask (1929), also starring Fairbanks as d'Artagnan and DeBrulier as Cardinal Richelieu.