A Modern Musketeer

There is a price to pay for chivalry, but also great rewards. In this case a woman. Oh, and $100,000. Fairbanks Snr. really is a cyclone in this - his departure from his hometown that involves him climbing a church steeple is proper crazy - and it's a delight to watch (despite the plot which is all over the place). It is also worth noting that some of the scenes at/in the Grand Canyon are striking, you cannot look away.

fairbanks pulls off the great stunts and good gags and all around the story in this movie is pretty decent. i suppose you can mark me down as officially won over by fairbanks now. a good beginning chapter to a great career.

The guy just wrecks lamps and climbs churches for no apparent reasons! In A Modern Musketeer, he does his first of many sword-fighting characters that he would be more known for during the 20s. Only as a fantasy flashback to the Musketeers days while he himself goes more western to out-smart sleazebags and outlaw Indians. This movie is a excellent taste at what Fairbanks Sr. did in the late-1910. He really was the original king of comedy action movies!