The Three Musketeers in film

The Three Musketeers, the novel by author Alexandre Dumas, père, has been the subject of numerous films and cartoons:

Films

• The Three Musketeers, a 1903 French production about which virtually nothing is known
• The Three Musketeers: Part 1 and Part 2, 1911 silent film shorts from Edison Studios starring Sydney Booth as D'Artagnan
• The Three Musketeers, a 1914 American film directed by Charles V. Henkel and starring Earl Talbot
• The Three Musketeers, a 1916 Hollywood feature directed by Charles Swickard, supervised by Thomas H. Ince and including in its cast Louise Glaum as Milady de Winter and Dorothy Dalton as Queen Anne
• Les Trois Mousquetaires, a 1921 French silent film version featuring Aimé Simon-Girard and Claude Mérelle. A blockbuster of its day, it spawned a number of sequels (an adaptation of Twenty Years After was released the following year).
• The Three Musketeers (1921 film), a 1921 silent film version starring Douglas Fairbanks
• Les Trois Mousquetaires (1933 film), a French talkie remake of the 1921 version, with the same director (Henri Diamant-Berger) and much of the same cast
• The Three Musketeers (1935 film), a black and white RKO version featuring Walter Abel
• The Three Musketeers (1939 film), a comedic version starring Don Ameche and the Ritz Brothers
• The Three Musketeers (1948 film), an MGM production starring Gene Kelly, Van Heflin, Lana Turner, and June Allyson
• The Three Musketeers (1953 film), director André Hunebelle, featuring Georges Marchal and Bourvil
• Los tres mosqueteros y medio (1957 film), Mexican comedic version starring Tin-Tan.
• The Three Musketeers (1961 film) A double-feature adaptation directed by Bernard Borderie, with Gérard Barray, Mylène Demongeot, Guy Delorme and Jean Carmet
• The Three Musketeers (1969 film), a television movie starring Kenneth Welsh and also featuring Christopher Walken
• The Three Musketeers (1973 film), and The Four Musketeers (film) (1974) a two-film adaptation starring Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, and Richard Chamberlain
• Les Quatre Charlots Mousquetaires (1974) and A Nous Quatre Cardinal (1974), two part comedy starring Les Charlots, but also quite faithful to the novel
• d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978), a popular Soviet musical featuring Mikhail Boyarsky
• The Three Musketeers (1993 film), a Disney production starring Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, and Tim Curry
• The Musketeer (2001), a very loose adaptation, in a style imitating Asian action movies
• d'Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires (2005)
• The Three Musketeers (2011 film), a 3D version of the film directed by Paul W.S. Anderson starring Logan Lerman, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Christoph Waltz, Orlando Bloom, Milla Jovovich and Matthew Macfadyen.
• 3 Musketeers (film), a direct-to-video modern action adaptation by The Asylum.

Animated versions

• The Two Mouseketeers, a Tom and Jerry cartoon, with three follow-ups, Touché, Pussy Cat!, Tom and Chérie and Royal Cat Nap
• The Three Musketeers in Boots, a 1972 anime from Toei Animation featuring cats as the main characters
• The Three Musketeers, a 1973 Australian made-for-TV cartoon, one of a series of Famous Classic Tales adaptations
• d'Artagnan l'intrépide, a 1975 animated feature film directed by John Halas
• The Three Musketeers (1992 film), production using classical music
• Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004), another Disney remake, this one a made-for-video film. The plot makes it more like a sequel, actually featuring the Musketeers from the original story as separate characters.
• Barbie and the Three Musketeers (2009), a direct-to-video Barbie movie in which the Musketeers are female.

Series

• The Three Musketeers (1933 serial), a Mascot Studios serial featuring John Wayne, updated and set in North Africa, with the Musketeers replaced by French Foreign Legionnaires
• The Three Musketeers, a 1954 BBC adaptation in six 30-minute episodes, starring Laurence Payne, Roger Delgado, Paul Whitsun-Jones and Paul Hansard
• The Three Musketeers, a 1966 BBC adaptation in ten 25-minute episodes, directed by Peter Hammond and starring Jeremy Brett, Jeremy Young, and Brian Blessed
• The Three Musketeers (cartoon), a series of animated shorts produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1968 as part of The Banana Splits television show
• Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, a 1981 Spanish animated series featuring dogs as the main characters
• The Three Musketeers (1987 TV series) (Anime Sanjushi), a Japanese animated series produced by Gakken
• Young Blades

Sequels

• The Man in the Iron Mask (film), a number of films with that title (or something similar, or in one case The Fifth Musketeer) based on the final section of the novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Dumas, père
• At Sword's Point (1952), an RKO Radio picture starring Cornel Wilde, Dan O'Herlihy, Alan Hale, Jr., and Maureen O'Hara as the sons and daughter of the original Musketeers
• The Return of the Musketeers (1989), a film version of Twenty Years After by the team responsible for the 1973 and 1974 movies and is a direct sequel to them, featuring much of the same cast
• Ring of the Musketeers (1992), modern day version featuring the "descendents" of the original Musketeers starring David Hasselhoff, Cheech Marin, Corbin Bernsen, Alison Doody, and John Rhys-Davies
• La Fille de d'Artagnan (1994) (The Daughter of d'Artagnan), a French production starring Sophie Marceau in the title role, and Philippe Noiret as an aged d'Artagnan
• La Femme Musketeer (2004), a made-for-TV production starring Susie Amy as d'Artagnan's daughter "Valentine", with Michael York, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Cazenove, John Rhys-Davies, and Nastassja Kinski
• The Secret of Queen Anna, or Musketeers Thirty Years After (1993) and The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin (2009), Russian film sequels to the 1978 musical, starring Mikhail Boyarsky

See also

• The Three Mesquiteers