The Three Musketeers (1921)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.1/10   

Director:

Fred Niblo

Escritores:

Alexandre Dumas père (novel)
Douglas Fairbanks (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

28 agosto 1921 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Aventura | Historia | Romance

Plot:

The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is...

Plot Keywords:

Musketeer | Cardinal Richelieu | France | Rescue | Aristocrat

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Three Musketeers? Or Do All Three Become One?

Reparto

Douglas Fairbanks	...	D'Artagnan
Léon Bary	...	Athos (as Leon Barry)
George Siegmann	...	Porthos
Eugene Pallette	...	Aramis
Boyd Irwin	...	Comte de Rochefort
Thomas Holding	...	Duke of Buckingham
Sidney Franklin	...	Monsieur Bonacieux
Charles Stevens	...	Planchet
Nigel De Brulier	...	Cardinal Richelieu
Willis Robards	...	Captain de Treville
Lon Poff	...	Father Joseph
Mary MacLaren	...	Queen Anne of Austria
Marguerite De La Motte	...	Constance Bonacieux
Barbara La Marr	...	Milady de Winter
Walt Whitman	...	D'Artagnan's Father

También conocida como:

Los tres mosqueteros (Spain) [es]

Duración:

119 min

País:

USA

Color:

Negro y Blanco | Color (Wyckoff-DeMill Color) (some sequences)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.33 : 1

Sonido:

Silent

Compañía:

Douglas Fairbanks Pictures

Citas:

D'Artagnan: [bumping into Athos] Excuse me. I am running after someone.
Athos: You can find me without running. Do you understand?
D'Artagnan: Where?
Athos: Behind the Luxemborg.
D'Artagnan: When?
Athos: One o'clock.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "The Black Adder: The Black Seal (#1.6)" (1983)

Three Musketeers? Or Do All Three Become One?

As with "The Prisoner of Zenda", the more colorful female role here is actually the second lead—in this case the wicked but exciting Milady de Winter, beautifully played by the exotic Barbara La Marr. This is not to say that the main feminine role (enacted by Marguerite De La Motte), does not have its share of excitement. Miss De La Motte shares some wonderful scenes not only with Fairbanks but with Mary MacLaren and Nigel de Brulier (whose study of the ruthless Richelieu is so compelling, he was hired to repeat his impersonation in three more swashbucklers).

Fairbanks, of course, is suitably dashing as D'Artagnan, and his swordplay is certainly impressive throughout an action-full two hours. As producer he has made sure to bring his hero into conflict with many worthy opponents, including de Brulier's cardinal, Boyd Irwin's black count, Lon Poff's gray eminence, and even Adolphe Menjou's weak but self-important Louis.

Three players who do receive short shrift, however, even though they share much footage with our hero, are Palette, Siegmann and Bary, who play the titular musketeers. Here they are so inadequately characterized, they make virtually no impression as individuals at all.

However, if I have to choose between character development and swift pacing, I'll take swift pacing any day!