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Director:
Writers:
Aubrey Wisberg (story) and
Jack Pollexfen (story)
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Release Date:
February 1952 (USA) more
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Plot:
In 1648 France, it's the sons (and daughter) of the Three Musketeers to the rescue! full summary | add synopsis
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A great spoof of adventure! more (4 total)

Cast

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Cornel Wilde ... D'Artagnan

Maureen O'Hara ... Claire
Robert Douglas ... Duc de Lavalle
Gladys Cooper ... Queen Anne
June Clayworth ... Comtesse Claudine
Dan O'Herlihy ... Aramis
Alan Hale Jr. ... Porthos
Blanche Yurka ... Madame Michom
Nancy Gates ... Princess Henriette
Edmund Breon ... Queen's Chamberlain (as Edmond Breon)
Peter Miles ... Young Louis XIV
George Petrie ... Chalais
Moroni Olsen ... Old Porthos
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Sons of the Musketeers (UK)
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Runtime:
81 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Trivia:
'Alan Hale Jr.' plays the son of Porthos here. His father, Alan Hale, appeared in The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) as an aging Porthos. When that film was remade as The Fifth Musketeer (1979), that role was taken by 'Alan Hale Jr.' In that same movie the role of an aging D'Artagnan was played by Cornel Wilde, this picture's son of D'Artagnan. Also here, the elderly Porthos is played by Moroni Olsen, who played that character in his younger days in the film of the original Dumas novel, The Three Musketeers (1935). more
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Factual errors: Queen Anne died in 1666, not 1648. more
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Narrator: The year 1648 was a grim one for France. With the death of the great Cardinal Richelieu, the strong hand holding the country together was gone. Terror and violence ruled as the power-hungry nobles plotted to gain control.
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A great spoof of adventure!, 21 July 2000
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Is "At Sword's Point," a great adventure film?

Well, perhaps not. But it is a great spoof of adventure, and, as a piece of entertainment, it needs no defending.

The sons of the three musketeers rally round their aging Queen of France (Gladys Cooper) to prevent her daughter's marriage to the ambitious Duc De Lavalle (Robert Douglas) and to protect the throne of Young Louis XIV (Peter Miles) from the villainous nobleman...

Caught between beautiful sets, fancy costumes and clashing swords, our reddish-brown haired heroine (Maureen O'Hara) - as Claire, the daughter of Athos, who joins the offspring of the other musketeers - found enough opportunity for romance with the handsome and dynamic Cornel Wilde (expert fencer as D'Artagnan). Maureen's proficiency with the sword gets our attention but not her ability to manage the soft dialogue...

The supporting cast - the tall, distinguished looking Dan O'Herlihy as Aramis & Alan Hales Jr. as Porthos - add a major assets to the picture, photographed in vivid Technicolor...

A hilarious duel climaxes this likable swashbuckling adventure...

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