D'artagnan
Cast & Crew
Charles Swickard
Orrin Johnson
Dorothy Dalton
Louise Glaum
Harvey Clark
Walt Whitman
Film Details
Synopsis
Leaving his family in Gascony, young D'Artagnan travels to Paris and, through a series of misadventures, befriends the Three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Anne of Austria, the seventeenth century Queen of France who far prefers England's Duke of Buckingham to her husband Louis XIII, presses D'Artagnan into her service through her personal maid Constance Bonacieux. Louis had given Anne some diamond shirt studs and she, in turn, presented them to Buckingham. The power hungry Cardinal Richelieu, eager to expose Anne's infidelity, convinces Louis to ask her to wear the studs at a royal ball. Anne tells D'Artagnan to travel to England, procure the studs and return to Paris before the ball. Fighting the cardinal's forces all the way, D'Artagnan returns just in time to give the studs back to the queen, and, therefore, foils Richelieu's plan of discrediting the monarchy.
Director
Charles Swickard
Cast
Orrin Johnson
Dorothy Dalton
Louise Glaum
Harvey Clark
Walt Whitman
Arthur Maude
George Fisher
Rhea Mitchell
A. Hollingsworth
Edward Kenny
J. P. Lockney
Crew
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According to modern sources, the film was made by Thomas H. Ince for release through Mutual but was acquired by Triangle after Ince had helped to form the company. Circulating prints of the film bear the title The Three Musketeers and the company name of the Film Distributors League, which, according to a modern distributor, released the film onto the state rights market in a re-titled version in November 1920. No evidence of this 1920 release, however, has been found in contemporary sources. According to the same modern distributor, Triangle sued Douglas Fairbanks for copyright infringement when Douglas Fairbanks Productions released their version of The Three Musketeers, starring Fairbanks and directed by Fred Niblo, in 1921 through United Artists (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films,1921-30). Other films based on the same source and entitled The Three Musketeers include a 1935 RKO release directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Walter Abel; a 1939 Twentieth Century-Fox release, directed by Allan Dwan and starring Don Ameche (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40); a 1948 M-G-M release directed by George Sidney and starring Gene Kelly; a 1974 Twentieth Century-Fox release, directed by Richard Lester and starring Michael York; and a 1993 Disney release directed by Stephen Herek and starring Chris O'Donnell.
