The Three Musketeers (film)

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The Three Musketeers, a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père has been filmed many times. Notable film versions include:

• Les Trois Mousquetaires (1921 film) — a French silent film version featuring Aimé Simon-Girard as d'Artagnan and Claude Mérelle as Milady de Winter. A blockbuster of its day, which spawned a number of sequels (an adaptation of Twenty Years After was released the following year).
• The Three Musketeers (1921 film) — a silent film version starring Douglas Fairbanks.
• The Three Musketeers (1933 serial) — Mascot Studios serial updated to the present day and set in North Africa, where the musketeers are members of the French Foreign Legion. Stars John Wayne as d'Artagnan.
• Les Trois Mousquetaires (1933 film) — a French remake of the 1921 version as a talkie with the same director (Henri Diamant-Berger) and many of the same cast.
• The Three Musketeers (1935 film) — black and white version for RKO starring Paul Lukas and Walter Abel.
• The Three Musketeers (1939 film) — comedic version starring Don Ameche and the Ritz Brothers.
• The Three Musketeers (1948 film) — directed by George Sidney for MGM; starring Gene Kelly, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury, Lana Turner, June Allyson.
• The Two Mouseketeers - A Tom and Jerry cartoon which won the Best Short Cartoon Oscar in 1951.
• At Sword's Point (1952 film) - 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 Three Musketeers.
• Any Time at All - from The Beatles cartoon series (1966) with the Fab Four imagining themselves as "Athos, Porthos, Aremis, and...RINGO!"
• The Three Musketeers (TV series) — animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1968.
• The Three Musketeers (1973 film) and The Four Musketeers (film) (1974) — a more-complete-than-usual adaptation directed by Richard Lester and starring Michael York as d'Artagnan, Oliver Reed as Athos, Frank Finlay as Porthos, and Richard Chamberlain as Aramis. The team reassembled fifteen years later for a film version of Twenty Years After, released in 1989 under the title The Return of the Musketeers.
• D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers ("D'Artanyan i tri mushketyora", 1978) — a Russian musical interpretation of the book vastly popular in the former Soviet Union, starring Mikhail Boyarsky as d'Artagnan, Veniamin Smekhov as Athos, Igor Starygin as Aramis and Valentin Smirnitsky as Porthos. Two sequels were made: Musketeers Twenty Years After (1992) and The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers 30 Years After (1993).
• Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds — 1981 animated series featuring dogs as the main characters.
• Dog in the Boots ("Pes v Sapogakh") — 1981 Russian animated movie featuring dogs as the main characters and cats as Cardinal and his guards.
• Anime Sanjushi (1987) — Japanese animated series produced by Gakken.
• The Three Musketeers (1992 film) — an animated version produced by Golden Films.
• The Three Musketeers (1993 film) — a Disney production starring Charlie Sheen as Aramis, Kiefer Sutherland as Athos, Chris O'Donnell as d'Artagnan, Oliver Platt as Porthos, and Tim Curry as Richelieu. Bryan Adams wrote the hit "All For Love" for the movie's soundtrack, performing it with Rod Stewart and Sting. Movie critic/historian Leonard Maltin christened this version Young Swords, as it reunited Sheen and Sutherland, both of ...Guns fame.
• La Fille de d'Artagnan (1994) — ("The Daughter of d'Artagnan") with Sophie Marceau.
• The Musketeer (2001) — very loose adaptation, in a style imitating Asian action movies.
• Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004) — yet another Disney remake, this one a made-for-video animated film, with Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and Donald Duck in the title roles. The plot makes it more like a sequel, actually featuring the musketeers from the original story as separate characters.
• Les Trois Mousquetaires (2004, 2005) — An epic reinterpretation done in two parts.
• The Three Musketeers (2005 film), an animated Danish/Latvian feature film directed by Janis Cimermanis.