The Three Musketeers (1921 film) - Directed by Fred Niblo - Full Movie

Cardinal Richelieu, engaged in intrigue at the court of Louis XIII, attempts to rule by threatening the queen, who is secretly in love with the Duke of Buckingham. From Gascony comes D'Artagnan to join the King's Musketeers in his quest for adventure. He wins the right to membership by proving his prowess with the sword and forms an eternal alliance with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, the Three Musketeers. After many adventures, he embarks on a dangerous mission to England to recover a diamond brooch, a gift of the king, which the queen has given to Buckingham as a token of affection. He recovers it and returns in time to save the queen from the wrath of Louis, defeat the cardinal's intrigue, and win Constance, the queen's seamstress.

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"). The film had a sequel, The Iron Mask (1929), also starring Fairbanks as d'Artagnan and DeBrulier as Cardinal Richelieu.

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
Release date: August 28, 1921
Running time: 120 minutes
Country: United States
Languages: Silent film, English intertitles
Box office: $1.5 million