The Three Must-Get-Theres
About The Three Must-Get-Theres
Dart-In-Again, played by Max Linder, follows the incidents of The Three Musketeers and plays them as jokes. He is up against Li'l Cardinal Richie-Loo. Constance Bonne-aux-Fieux is the woman in the plot. King Louis XIII is on the throne the cardinal is scheming around. The fights and the errands match the Douglas Fairbanks musketeer film of 1921, with the romance stripped out.
Cast & crew
More about The Three Must-Get-Theres
Max Linder directed, wrote, produced, and starred. United Artists released it on 27 August 1922. It is his last American film. He then went back to Europe and co-directed Max, der Zirkuskönig (Max, King of the Circus) in Austria, the last film he finished. Bull Montana plays Li'l Cardinal Richie-Loo. Frank Cooke plays Louis XIII. Jobyna Ralston plays Constance. Wikipedia times the film at 55 minutes and notes abridged copies at 37. Another listing says 58.
Themes
Making
Linder made the parody in America immediately after Fairbanks's hit, then left. The Austrian circus film is the next, and last, picture he completed.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A print survives. Some circulating copies are abridged to 37 minutes.
Notes
- The names are the joke: Dart-In-Again, Richie-Loo, Bonne-aux-Fieux.
- It tracks the 1921 Fairbanks The Three Musketeers almost step for step and plays each step as absurd.
- The story under both films is Dumas's 1844 novel.
- Caroline Rankin, John J. Richardson, Clarence Wertz, and Fred Cavens are on the cast list.
- A print survives.
Influenced by
- Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers (1844)
- The Three Musketeers (1921)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Three Must-Get-Theres (1922).webm)
