The Three Musketeers (1933 serial)

The Three Musketeers is a 1933 American PreCode film serial produced by Mascot Pictures which updates Dumas The Three Musketeers by setting the story in contemporary North Africa. The Musketeers are soldiers in the French Foreign Legion, and DArtagnan renamed Lt. Tom Wayne and played by John Wayne, is a pilot in the United States military. The supporting cast features Raymond Hatton, Francis X. Bushman, Jr., Lon Chaney, Jr. and Noah Beery, Jr.. The serial is in the public domain. In 1946 Republic Pictures edited the serial into a feature film called Desert Command.

The Three Musketeers was loosely adapted from the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, pre and updated to a contemporary time period. The Three Musketeers are legionnaires in the French Foreign Legion Clancy Irish, Renard French and Schmidt German. The DArtagnan character is Tom Wayne, an American aviator played by John Wayne, who rescues the three from attacking Arabs while flying over the desert.

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