The Three Musketeers (USA, 1921)

My first silent movie and a Douglas Fairbanks film, no less !

I don’t believe I need to tell anyone what the movie is about, do I?

The fight scenes and the acrobatics are incredible. Fairbanks was truly an athlete ; not a make-believe action star created in an editing room. There are no tricks here, it is the real deal. That man can move and jump around so much it is surreal. Following his why walk when you can run/why run when you can leap attituted all through the film.

It is an entertaining movie to watch, but feels a bit long (118 minutes). Maybe too much of the original Alexandre Dumas story was put in the film. When adapting a book to the silver screen, parts must be cut out. Even more when it is as thick as The Three Musketeers.

For swashbuckling lovers, silent film fans and cinema enthusiats.