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  The Three Musketeers (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Three Musketeers (1933 serial) — Mascot Studios serial updated to the present day and set in North Africa, where the musketeers are members of the French Foreign Legion.
and Maureen O'Hara as the sons and daughter of the original Three Musketeers.
The Three Musketeers (1973 film) and The Four Musketeers (film) (1974) — a more-complete-than-usual adaptation directed by Richard Lester and starring Michael York as d'Artagnan, Oliver Reed as Athos, Frank Finlay as Porthos, and Richard Chamberlain as Aramis.
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 Serial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The popular Indiana Jones movies are a well-known, romantic pastiche of the serials' clichéd plot elements and devices.
Serials were especially popular with children, and for many youths in the first half of the 20th century, a typical Saturday at the movies included a chapter of at least one serial, along with cartoons, newsreels, and two feature films.
Three different serials had them chasing the Art Deco sound truck, required for location shooting, for various reasons.
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 D'Artagnan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexandre Dumas in turn used de Sandras' novel as the main source for his three d'Artagnan Romances, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, which cover the d'Artagnan's career from his humble beginnings in Gascony to his death at Maastricht.
Douglas Fairbanks, in The Three Musketeers (1921), and The Iron Mask (1929)
Mikhail Boyarsky, in d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) and its sequels (1992, 1993)
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 The Three Musketeers (1921 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Three Musketeers, produced in 1921, is a silent movie based on the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père.
The movie was directed by Fred Niblo and starred Douglas Fairbanks as D'Artagnan.
The athletic Douglas Fairbanks's one-handed handspring to grab a sword during a fight scene in this film is considered as one of the great stunts of the early cinema period.
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 Amazon.com: The Three Musketeers: Video: Douglas Fairbanks,Léon Bary,George Siegmann,Eugene Pallette,Boyd Irwin,Thomas ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos.
This becomes a quest for D'Artagnan and the three musketeers who gladly risk their lives for the Glory of France and the Queen's honour.
I can recommand also the french silent movie version from henri diamant-berger(in 1921 too) that was a huge budget for this time and was lost forever before being found by chance in a private home.
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 GeneralAramis got their homepage at Neopets.com
His life was loosely based off that of the real musketeer, Henri d'Aramitz, who was the Abbè of a small village outside of Béarn.
All in all, his character, and the movies in general were the closest to the book that I've seen.
The Three Musketeers (1956), Le Avventure dei tre moschettieri (1957) – Paul Campbell – TV series and a movie starring the same actors.
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 At Sword's Point: Swashbuckling in the Movies
The first three, coincidentally, were natives of Belgium; the last was born in Abilene, Kansas, U.S.A. Each man had a lengthy career in sport fencing.
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Cavens; 1938), The Mark of Zorro.(Cavens; 1940), The Corsican Brothers (Cavens; 1941), The Three Musketeers (Heremans; 1948), The Court Jester (Faulkner; 1956), and Cyrano de Bergerac (Cavens; 1950).
We recall the bravery of Cyrano de Bergerac, the justice of Robin Hood and Zorro, and the loyalty and brotherhood of the Three Musketeers.
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 HPR1.com / Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Although Fairbanks is best known for his swashbuckling adventures like "The Mark of Zorro" (1920), "The Three Musketeers" (1921), "Robin Hood" (1922), and numerous others, he started his film career doing light-hearted contemporary comedies.
A weird bone-and-claw throwing star turns out to be the source of the blowout, and it isn't too long before the marauding Creeper begins to prey on the sitting ducks.
Salva obviously studied "Jaws" while preparing his movie, and the modus operandi of Taggart echoes the single-minded obsession of Robert Shaw's Quint - even down to the specially modified tools employed in order to bring down the beast.
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 Norikazu Kameda
Other middle age movies based on literatures are The Three Musketeers (1921) and The Counto of Monte Cristo (1934), both from novels by Alexandre Dumas pere.
Although this movie uses existing figures and is based on true story, as I mentioned before, middle age movies don’t have to follow true stories.
This movie is also categorized as fantasy but has enough elements to be middle age movie which include less advanced technology, no guns, and middle age like costumes.
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 Les Trois Mousquetaires
The agent is discovered to be the evil wife of one of the Musketeers.
The eighth volume is filled out with three tales and one art study : "Histoire d'un Mort," "Histoire d'une Âme," "Un Message," and "Fra Bartholomeo." (Refer to page 173.) Several copies were printed on laid paper.
It is not generally known that there are two - or three if it is preferred - texts of this famous romance; certainly the fact has been forgotten for three-quarters of a century, possibly for longer.
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 VH1.com : Movies : The Three Musketeers : Plot
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).
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).
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 "Graffiti' even better on wide screen
This universal appeal, the communication of the feeling that the movie captures almost everyone's memories of the high school past, is a significant achievement.
It is also hard to forget Lucas' sense of the long American night and its promise of adventure, the alluring young beauties who seize the hearts of boys then disappear into a river of traffic, the imaginative practical jokes, and the exhilarating heroism of a hot-rod race at dawn.
"Musketeers" (1921) was directed by Fred Niblo, who was known for his involvement with some of the Rudolph Valentino films and the 1926 "Ben Hur." "Robin Hood" (1922) was directed by Allan Dwan, a filmmaker who created more than 400 movies and worked with such disparate screen personalities as Shirley Temple and John Wayne.
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 Royalty in the Movies
Anthony Hope's novel is a minor classic and had been filmed three times in the silent era and once in a sound version in 1937.
When the James Bond movie craze was at its height in the mid-sixties, it wasn't unusual to find dozens of Ian Fleming rip-offs and wannabe 007s at the local cinema.
Originally The Three Musketeers was to have been directed by John Ford with frequent Ford collaborator Dudley Nichols providing the script.
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 The Three Musketeers (1921) -- Gog’s Workshop
I don’t believe I need to tell anyone what the movie is about, do I? The fight scenes and the acrobatics are incredible.
It is an entertaining movie to watch, but feels a bit long (118 minutes).
Even more when it is as thick as The Three Musketeers.
www.gogsworkshop.com /2006/07/31/the-three-musketeers-1921   (207 words)

  
 Film Facts for Fencers
There were numerous silents of THE THREE MUSKETEERS but the mostwidely known is the 1921 version that starred Douglas Fairbanks.
In 1935, the Musketeers were: Walter Abel (D'Artagnan), PaulLukas, (Athos), Moroni Olsen (Porthos), and Onslow Stevens(Aramis).
The Three Musketeers (1933) John Wayne *This was a 12 part serial with the Musketeers updated and in the French Foreign Legion.
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 American Experience | Mary Pickford | People & Events | PBS
Fairbanks, along with three of the top names in Hollywood, founded United Artists in 1919.
At the age of 44, Fairbanks recognized that his screen career was on a downward spiral.
His son, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., remembered that his father did not like "talkies," because he thought of his movie acting as a kind of ballet that could not be accomplished with early sound technology.
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 DVD Empire - Item - Three Musketeers, The / DVD-Video
D'Artagnan is a naive and ambitious farm boy who yearns to join the Musketeers, the elite regiment of guards under King Louis XIII (Adolphe Menjou).
When Queen Anne (Mary McLaren) is maneuvered into a political scandal by the devious Cardinal Richelieu (Nigel De Brulier), D'Artagnan and his bons hommes embark on a treacherous race across France, to England and back to regain a precious brooch that will save the queen's honor and the future of their nation.
More than a thrilling adventure picture, The Three Musketeers is a handsomely-produced, emotionally sensitive telling of Dumas' classic novel, buoyed by Fairbanks's electrifying presence.
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 © Douglas Fairbanks - Silent Movie Star
During the 1920's Douglas Fairbanks was probably the most popular male silent movie star, making his famous costume pictures, such as "The Mark Of Zorro" (1920), "The Three Musketeers," (1921) and "Robin Hood." (1921).
Finally, by the time sound came in, Doug was feeling his age and his talkie film with Mary Pickford "The Taming Of The Shrew" (1929) was unsuccessful.
Doug and Mary were divorced in 1936, and Fairbanks married Lady Sylvia Ashley, retiring from movies.
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 Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks was born in Denver USA in May 1883 and started acting in the theatre, he was a very successful as a Broadway star and graduated to movies in 1915.
Starting out with DW Griffith, who did not really rate Doug very highly, his first film was "The Lamb" (1915) and over the next five years he made dozens of films, usually to the same formula, downtrodden hero, lots of stunts, Doug gets the girl.
Doug made his last silent film in 1929 "The Iron Mask " his sequel to "The Three Musketeers" with its poignant and ironic ending signified the end of the silent film era and the end of Dougs stardom.
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 OC Metro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The same is true if you stroll around the Upper Bay where “Cleopatra” and the Douglas Fairbanks version of “The Three Musketeers” were filmed, or hike in Santiago Canyon where dozens of early, one-reel westerns were made when the country was still mostly wilderness and ranch land.
It rained the first three days in Capistrano, and a mob attacked the film crew at one point, believing that an actor dressed as a priest was mocking the Catholic religion, but the film got made.
Just the same, movies continue to made here in significant numbers, pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into the OC economy each year.
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 The Douglas Fairbanks Museum - Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Fairbanks was the movies' most elegant, dashing, and vital star in the `teens and 20s.
The goal of UA was to provide independent distribution for artists who produced their own movies, and to break the big studios practice of "block booking" pictures into theatres.
You can often see his films on the Turner Classic Movies and American Movie Classics cable networks, his work is still often screened at silent film festivals worldwide, and high-quality prints of his pictures are available through many online video retailers.
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 THE MUSKETEER - Main Movie Page...CinemaReview.com....Movie Reviews, Movie Contents, Moviegoer Opinions and Much More!
Some of the action scenes are quite good and are obviously best seen on the big screen, so while it would make a good rental, you'll be missing some of the visual excitement.
In addition to the expected thieves and cut-throats on the road to Paris, he meets formidable enemies in the capitol: the conniving Cardinal Richelieu and his army of enforcers, led by the cold-blooded man in fl, Febre.
The entire legion of Musketeers has been stripped of its commission, and their captain, the chivalrous Treville, has been imprisoned for a sensational political murder, a murder actually committed by Febre.
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 USATODAY.com - 'Runaway Jury,' classics released   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Screenwriter Walter Bernstein, director Martin Ritt and several of the movie's stars (including Zero Mostel, who is great as a comic named Hecky) were fllisted in real life so there's an element of "gotcha!" here.
The movie is full of secret meetings, windy speeches and fleeting sack time (juror John Cusack and Rachel Weisz) plus ransacks, arson, plot twists and even nips of hooch in the jury room.
For a primer on Sr., The Douglas Fairbanks Collection (Kino, unrated, $100) offers reissues of The Mark of Zorro (1920) with Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925); The Three Musketeers (1921); The Black Pirate (1926, in color); a remastered Robin Hood (1922); and the DVD premiere of The Thief of Bagdad (1924).
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 The Iron Mask Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
The Iron Mask was Douglas Fairbanks' sequel to his popular 1921 vehicle The Three Musketeers.
After tying up loose plot ends from the first film, the middle-aged D'Artagnan and his equally venerable fellow musketeers Athos (Leon Bary, also returning from the 1921 film), Porthos (Stanley J. "Tiny" Sandford) and Aramis (Gino Corrado) set about to rescue Louis XIV (William Bakewell), the rightful King of France.
Most currently available prints of Iron Mask are taken from the 1940 reissue, narrated by Douglas Fairbanks Jr; in 1974 the younger Fairbanks prepared a restored version of the original, including two brief dialogue passages filmed by Fairbanks back in 1929.
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 At-A-Glance Film Reviews: The Three Musketeers (1973)
No part of story is taken especially seriously; bits of well-done slapstick provide humor, while the spectacular swordfighting provide the thrills.
The Fifth Musketeer (1979) (aka: "Behind the Iron Mask")
Revenge of the Musketeers (1994) (aka: "D'Artagnan's Daughter")
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 TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
Made at MGM, the Rolls Royce of movie studios at the time, The Three Musketeers has a star-studded cast that includes sexy Lana Turner, June Allyson, Angela Lansbury, Van Heflin, Vincent Price, Gig Young, and the electrifying Gene Kelly (whose character and performance are synonymous with the term swashbuckling).
The Three Musketeers was an extremely personal project for Kelly for two reasons.
The first was the fact that he was recreating the character (D'Artagnan) played by his favorite star (Douglas Fairbanks) in his favorite movie (the 1921 version of The Three Musketeers).
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