The Three Musketeers (1916 film)

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.^[1] Prints survive of this film, with one existing in the George Eastman House.^[2]

The Three Musketeers
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Directed by	Charles Swickard
Written by	J.G. Hawks
Based on	The Three Musketeers 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas
Produced by	Thomas H. Ince
Starring	Orrin Johnson Dorothy Dalton Louise Glaum
Cinematography	Clyde De Vinna
Music by	Wedgwood Nowell Joseph Nurnberger Victor Schertzinger
Production companies	Kay-Bee Pictures New York Motion Picture
Distributed by	Triangle Distributing
Release date	February 6, 1916 (1916-02-06)
Running time	63 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

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.^[3]

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