Originally released under the title D'Artagnan, The Three Musketeers is a 1916 American silent adventure film directed by Charles Swickard and starring Orrin Johnson, Dorothy Dalton, and Louise Glaum. It is an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel The Three Musketeers. Prints survive of this film, with one existing in the George Eastman House.
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Plot summary
D’Artagnan leaves home travelling to Paris to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although D’Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age: Athos, Porthos and Aramis and gets involved in affairs of the state and court.
Cast
Orrin Johnson as D'Artagnan
Dorothy Dalton as Queen Anne of Austria
Louise Glaum as Miladi Winter (Milady de Winter)
Harvey Clark as Duke of Buckingham
Walt Whitman as Cardinal Richelieu
Arthur Maude as Count de Rochefort
George Fisher as King Louis XIII
Rhea Mitchell as Constance Bonacieux
Alfred Hollingsworth as Athos
Edward Kenny as Porthos
Claude N. Mortensen as Aramis
J.P. Lockney as Bonacieux
Aftermath
The film was re-edited and re-issued in November 1920 under the title The Three Musketeers. There was a legal battle between Triangle Pictures and United Artists over potential copyright infringement against the version starring Douglas Faribanks released in 1921 by United Artists.