A Modern Musketeer is a 1917 American silent adventure comedy film directed and written by Allan Dwan.

Based on the short story, "D'Artagnan of Kansas" by Eugene P. Lyle, Jr., which appeared in Everybody's Magazine, September 1912,[1] the film was produced by and stars Douglas Fairbanks.

[2] D'Artagnan (Douglas Fairbanks) rides up to a tavern on horseback and ends up brawling with sword and fist with the patrons inside in his haste to approach a fair young stranger.

Ned is born and raised in Kansas by a mother who passes along to him her love of D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers, despite his father's concern that it is not good for him.

Unimpressed with one passenger, the middle-aged Forrest Vandeteer (the "richest man in Yonkers"), Ned is quite taken with the lovely "Park Avenue flapper" Elsie Dodge.

James Brown, a member of the gang who knows and hates Vandeteer, gleefully tells Ned about the man's impending demise and Chin-de-dah's intentions toward Elsie.

Additional scenes were shot at Canyon de Chelly near Chinle, Arizona[3] and at the Jesse Lasky Studios in Los Angeles.

The DFI and the Museum of Modern Art restored the film with the newly discovered footage and the preserved print.