THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1933) John Wayne, Ruth Hall & Jack Mulhall | Action, Adventure, Drama | COLORIZED
The Three Musketeers (aka Three Musketeers) is a 1933 American pre-Code film serial directed by Armand Schaeffer and Colbert Clark, and produced by Nat Levine for Mascot Pictures. The film serial was very loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel The Three Musketeers, with the musketeers changed into three soldiers in the French Foreign Legion, and d'Artagnan being reconfigured as Lt. Tom Wayne (played by John Wayne), a pilot in the United States military.
Wayne only received fourth billing behind Raymond Hatton, Francis X. Bushman, Jr. and Jack Mulhall who play the three legionnaires. Lon Chaney Jr. had a co-starring role in the serial, mainly appearing in Chapter One.
SYNOPSIS
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion.
In the harsh deserts of North Africa, the French Foreign Legion provides a military presence. Lt. Tom Wayne is framed for the murder of Armand Corday, the brother of his fiancé. He vows to capture the real killer, a mysterious Arab terrorist known only as El Shaitan. He encounters three bumptious legionnaires: Clancy, an Irishman always spoiling for a fight; Renard, a wily Frenchman; and Schmidt, a German who loves sausages). They are the surviving members of a Foreign Legion unit that was wiped out in an attack.
Nicknamed the "Devil of the Desert", El Shaitan remains a shadowy figure, hiding his face and his true identity, as a result of which many people are mistakenly suspected of being the cult leader in the course of the serial, while other characters impersonate him for their own ends. At a meeting place called, "The Devil's Circle", El Shaitan commands a fanatic desert cult, a secret society formed to fight against the French authorities.
When Clancy, Renard and Schmidt are trapped by a horde of Berber tribesmen, Lt. Wayne quickly stops the attack using the machine gun mounted on his aircraft. The three legionnaires are in constant danger but Wayne comes to their rescue many times, acting as a modern-day d'Artagnan. Eventually the trio, with the aid of their new friend, triumph over their adversaries.
CAST & CREW
John Wayne as Tom Wayne
Ruth Hall as Elaine Corday
Jack Mulhall as Clancy
Raymond Hatton as Renard
Francis X. Bushman, Jr. (Ralph Bushman) as Schmidt
Noah Beery, Jr. as Stubbs
Al Ferguson as Ali, chief henchman
Hooper Atchley as El Kadur
George Magrill as El Maghreb
Edward Peil, Sr. as Ratkin
Gordon de Main as Colonel Duval
William Desmond as Captain Boncour
Robert Warwick as Colonel Brent
Creighton Chaney (Lon Chaney, Jr.; credited as Armand Corday)
Robert Frazer as Major Booth.
Directed by Armand Schaeffer, Colbert Clark
Written by Norman Hall. Colbert Clark, Ben Cohn, Wyndham Gittens
Based on The Three Musketeers 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas
Produced by Nat Levine
Edited by Ray Snyder
Music by Lee Zahler
Distributed by Mascot Pictures
Release date April 7, 1933
Running time 12 chapters (210 min), Film (96 min)
Country United States
Language English
NOTES
Like many other serials, The Three Musketeers was re-edited into a feature film version when it was re-released. In 1946, Favorite Films Corporation edited the serial into a 60-minute feature film called Desert Command. The chapter screen titles were eliminated to create a more continuous flow.
During the 1930s, after starring in The Big Trail (1930), its subsequent commercial failure meant that Wayne was relegated to minor roles in A-pictures, or starring, with his name over the title, in many low-budget Poverty Row Westerns, mostly at Monogram Pictures and serials for Mascot Pictures Corporation. Wayne would star in two other Mascot serials: The Shadow of the Eagle (1932) and The Hurricane Express (1932).
Chapters
The Fiery Circle
One for All and All for One
The Master Spy
Pirates of the Desert
Rebel Rifles
Death's Marathon
Naked Steel
The Master Strikes
The Fatal Cave
Trapped
The Measure of a Man
The Glory of Comrades
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