Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Patience Watson One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

bkoganbing Usually when films are held up like At Sword's Point are for two years that usually means they're stinkers. I've certainly seen better in the swashbuckling genre. My own opinion is that for whatever reason it was held up RKO decided it might have been to take advantage of the leads being out in big mega hits in 1952, Cornel Wilde in The Greatest Show On Earth and Maureen O'Hara in The Quiet Man. At Sword's Point shows France in the years of Louis XIV's minority having some big trouble. It certainly had its problems in those years, but the realm was led by a most capable regent in Cardinal Mazarin and the Queen Mother Anne Of Austria. Mazarin's role has been completely eliminated and Louis has a sister instead of a brother.Anne who is dying of a weak heart is being pressured by the grasping and fictional Duc DeLavalle played by Robert Douglas to marry princess Nancy Gates and steal the throne. The Queen Mother is played proudly and regally by Gladys Cooper. Cooper wishes those guys who saved her bacon back in the day were still around. Well Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan may not be, but their kids have all been taught the Musketeer fighting skills and it's time for a new generation of Musketeers to battle for the honor of the throne.The kids are Cornel Wilde as D'Artagnan, Alan Hale,Jr. as Porthos, Dan O'Herlihy as young Aramis and Athos was blessed with a daughter in Maureen O'Hara who keeps up with the boys in terms of fighting skills.One hopes that some kid studying French history doesn't take a short cut and watch this film to learn about France in 1650s. But as a swashbuckler it's not a bad film with heroes and villains cut from some whole cloth. The original Three Musketeers certainly had characters far more complex than these.And hopefully RKO got its money's worth with At Sword's Point in the wake of The Quiet Man and The Greatest Show On Earth.

Robert J. Maxwell Sixteen forty-eight and France is in hot water. Robert Douglass and his goons are plotting against the ailing old queen. The number of queens against whom Robert Douglass had plotted are too numerous to count.Time to muster the Four Musketeers -- Athos, Porthos, Aramis, D'Artignan, Paramus, Pasaic, and Patterson -- except that they are either dead or ridden with gout. So the sons of the three musketeers join forces along with the daughter of Athos, Maureen O'Hara at her most ravishing. She's been trained in swordplay and is dressed in masculine garb so at first the others take her for a boy. That's a novel touch.I couldn't make it to the end. It's supposed to be a good-hearted tale of derring-do but it doesn't hold a candle to Errol Flynn's best swashbucklers. It isn't that Cornell Wilde, as the son of D'Artignan, doesn't know how to wield a sword. He was on the fencing team at Columbia University. But he must have been forced to unlearn whatever he knew of fencing and instead learned the arts of fighting with furniture and holding off hordes of swordsmen with a single blade.The costumes are colorful and the hills of California make a serviceable substitute for France but, how to put this?, the atmosphere of action and jollity seems forced. The musketeers laugh uproariously at the corniest remarks. Except when fighting, they laugh in a most unbuttoned manner. They laugh at each other. They laugh at the enemy. They laugh when they're at death's door. Made me feel like the only person at the party who wasn't stoned.It is, however, full of gaudy action and a romance between Wilde and O'Hara. That's about as far as I got. The direction is terrible. The actors don't have a chance in this misguided effort. The kids should enjoy it, though, if they can put up with the absence of the kind of brutal violence they've seen on the screen lately.

gordonl56 AT SWORD'S POINT – 1952 This fun to watch adventure film is another take on "The Three Musketeers" tale.It is several decades past the time setting for the first story. Queen Anne, Gladys Cooper, is being pressured by the evil Duc de Lavalle (Robert Douglas) to marry off her daughter, Nancy Gates to him. Anne knows that Douglas is a power hungry swine who just wants to rule France. He is also trying to find the location of the next in line, the young boy, Peter Miles.Queen Anne has sent messengers to the King of Spain for help, but Douglas's men catch, and murder said riders. So she sends for her loyal Musketeers of years before. There is however a slight problem with this idea. The original men are all dead, or bedridden. Their children, Cornel Wilde, Dan O'Herlihy, Alan Hale JR and Maureen O'Hara however answer the call.Plenty of swordplay, escapes from the bad guys and thrilling rescues abound in this quick pace romp.I found it Interesting to see Miss O'Hara handling a sword with the rest. It looks like she must have taken more than a few lessons. Needless to say the new Musketeers save the day and dispatch the evil Douglas and his crew.Director Lewis Allen must have had a blast making this one. Allen, was better known for helming some dark film noir, such as, DESERT FURY, SO EVIL MY LOVE, A BULLET FOR JOEY, ILLEGAL, CHICAGO DEADLINE, APPOINTMENT WITH DANGER and SUDDENLY.

Nazi_Fighter_David 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...