At Sword's Point (1952)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Lewis Allen

Writers:

Aubrey Wisberg (story) and
Jack Pollexfen (story)

Release Date:

February 1952 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure

Plot:

In 1648 France, it's the sons (and daughter) of the Three Musketeers to the rescue!

Plot Keywords:

France | Musketeer | Queen | Father Son Relationship | Swashbuckler

Cast

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

Also Known As:

Sons of the Musketeers (UK)

Runtime:

81 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Finland:K-12

Company:

RKO Radio Pictures

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).

Goofs:

Continuity: When D'Artagnan meets Aramis, Aramis is with a girl. When D'Artagnan kisses the girl, the background is an obvious backdrop for it does not match the background in the long shot. The types of trees are different and the river is missing.

Quotes:

[first lines]
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.

Movie Connections:

Version of The Return of the Musketeers (1989)

This movie was fabulous

It was awhile ago that I say this movie. I've been trying to find some place to acquire it for my home library. I think this was a great movie. Extremely well done. I'd recommend it to anyone.