The Three Musketeers (1916 film)

The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers
	Film still
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;
Running time	63 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Last updated July 03, 2025

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]

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

References

↑ Klossner p. 96
↑ "D'Artagnan". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Library of Congress. Retrieved August 31, 2021.
↑ The Three Musketeers (1916) . Retrieved July 2, 2025– via letterboxd.com.

Bibliography

Klossner, Michael. The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000. McFarland & Company, 2002.

External links

The Three Musketeers at IMDb

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[1] Klossner p. 96

[2] "D'Artagnan". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Library of Congress. Retrieved August 31, 2021.

[3] The Three Musketeers (1916) . Retrieved July 2, 2025– via letterboxd.com.

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