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A Modern Musketeer is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Allan Dwan released in USA on 30 december 1917 with Douglas Fairbanks

A Modern Musketeer (1917)

A Modern Musketeer
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Released in USA 30 december 1917
Length 1h8
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Adventure,    Romance,    Western
Rating65% 3.278893.278893.278893.278893.27889

A Modern Musketeer is a 1917 American silent adventure comedy film directed and written by Allan Dwan. Based on the short story, "D’Artagnan of Kansas" by E.P. Lyle, Jr., the film was produced by and stars Douglas Fairbanks. A now complete and restored print of the film still exists and is currently in the public domain.

Synopsis

The film opens with a sequence in which D'Artagnan (Douglas Fairbanks) rides up to a tavern on horseback and ends up brawling with sword and fist with the patrons inside in his haste to approach a fair young stranger. After triumphing, he morphs into modern day Ned Thacker (also played by Fairbanks).

Actors

Douglas Fairbanks

(Ned Thacker / D'Artagnan)
Marjorie Daw

(Elsie Dodge)
Marjorie Daw

(Elsie Dodge)
Kathleen Kirkham

(Mrs. Dodge)
Edythe Chapman

(Mrs. Thacker)
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