The Gay Swordsman (Italian: Il figlio di d'Artagnan) is a 1950 Italian historical adventure film directed by Riccardo Freda and starring Carlo Ninchi, Gianna Maria Canale and Franca Marzi.

[3] The son of d'Artagnan, the hero of The Three Musketeers, does not wish to follow in his father's footsteps and retires to a monastery.

Raoul offers to track down and have the mysterious knight punished; but he tries to have him killed without result and so he is accused of having stolen the plan of operations against the Flemings to have him sentenced to death.

[1] The film was picked up for distribution overseas, with an article in the Los Angeles Times from November 1950 stating that Sol Lesser's company Principal Pictures International was going to import the film under the title of The Son of D'Artagnan.

[4]The film was only released in late 1953 in the United States on the bottom end of double bills with the title The Gay Swordsman.