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...Sword's Point. The Three Musketeers' children flash steel and steal kisses in a sequel to Dumas' classic. Stars Cornel Wilde and Maureen O'Hara. At the R.K.O. Boston...
...position, rescue the Sun King from a monestery, and save his sister from the clutches of a bonafide villain in the old style, the Duc de Laville. For additional merriment, Ferris and Hofman have provided that Athos, one of the original Three Musketeers, should have a daughter (Maureen O'Hara) who joins the revels at the Golden Cockerel...
Most of the entertainment, however, is at the director's expense. The swordplay is delightfully amateurish, and Miss O'Hara's lovemaking is delightfully deadpan. Most delightful of all, however, are the missed cues. At one point, Athos' daughter descends a staircase, stops and waits expectantly for the swordsmen who were supposed to surprise...
...course, there are other actors in this ten-year-old adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel--Thomas Mitchell is excellent as the Beggar King of backstreet Paris, even Maureen O'Hara is adequate as a gypsy dancer who violates some sort of 16th century McCarran Act and gets the Dungeon in return. For my money, though, it's Laughton all the way. His sardonic leer and characteristic aplomb steal the show whether he is abducting a woman, riding gleefully on the swinging church bells, or swooping down from the sky to save Miss O'Hara from the hangman's noose...
...earlier years, she had to pass up such masterpieces as Sherwood Anderson's Triumph of the Egg and Conrad Aiken's Silent Snow, Secret Snow, which somehow never made the yearly collections. Some master storytellers, among them Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter and John O'Hara, do not appear, while William Faulkner is represented by a mediocre sketch...