A Modern Musketeer

A Modern Musketeer is a 1917 American silent adventure comedy film directed and written by Allan Dwan. Based on the short story, DArtagnan 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.

Ned is born and raised in Kansas by a mother who passes along to him her love of DArtagnan and The Three Musketeers, despite his fathers concern that it is not good for him. In fact, Ned does get into trouble with his sometimes unwanted chivalrous attempts to help women. Finally, Ned can stand it no more he decides to leave dull Kansas. In mirroring scenes, DArtagnan is astride a somewhat lessthannoble steed, a present from his father for his departure from home, while Neds father gives him the modern equivalent a car.While driving in the desert, he comes upon a chauffeurdriven automobile stopped because the road ahead has been washed away. Unimpressed with one passenger, the middleaged Forrest Vandeteer the richest man in Yonkers, Ned is quite taken with the lovely Park Avenue flapper Elsie Dodge. Her mother, the third passenger, sees her only daughters marriage to Vandeteer as the solution to their dire financial straits. Vandeteer buys what he wants, and he wants Elsie. She, however, loathes her suitor she much prefers young Ned. ........

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