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A Modern Musketeer
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Allan Dwan
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks [Ned Thacker; and D’Artagnan], Marjorie Daw [Elsie Dodge], Kathleen Kirkham [Mrs. Dodge, Elsie’s mother], Eugene Ormonde [Forrest Vandeteer], Frank Campeau [Chin-de-dah], Tully Marshall [James Brown], Edythe Chapman [Mrs. Thacker], ZaSu Pitts [the amazed girl Ned passes on a Kansas street], Charles Stevens [Chin-de-dah’s Hopi gang member], Jim Mason [a Chin-de-dah gang member]
Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Artcraft Pictures Corporation [Artcraft Pictures]. / Produced by Douglas Fairbanks. Photoplay (scenario) by Allan Dwan, from the short story “D’Artagnan of Kansas” by E.P. Lyle, Jr. (Eugene P. Lyle Jr.). Photography (cinematography) by Hugh McClung and Harry Thorpe [?] + [Victor Fleming]? Supervising editor, Allan Dwan. Film editor, Billy Shea. / © 26 December 1917 by Artcraft Pictures Corporation [LP11871]. Released 30 December 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Adventure.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3021.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Museum of Modern Art film archive [35mm positive (donated by Douglas Fairbanks in 1939)]; and in Det Danske Filminstitut film archive [35mm positive (restoration version)].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: USA: Arizona: Grand Canyon: El Tovar Hotel
Listing updated: 24 February 2025.
References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.3021; Bardèche-History p. 115; Bogdanovich-Dwan pp. 8, 45-48; Limbacher-Feature p. 163 : ClasIm-225 p. 44; ClasIm-240 p. 44 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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