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At Sword's Point
At Sword's Point, also known as The Sons of the Three Musketeers, is a 1952 American historical action film directed by Lewis Allen and starring Cornel Wilde and Maureen O'Hara. It was shot in Technicolor by RKO Radio Pictures. The film was completed in 1949, but was not released until 1952.
The Three Musketeers' offsprings of Aramis, Porthos, D'Artagnan and Claire, the daughter of Athos, are reunited by the ageing Queen Anne to halt the villainy of her treacherous nephew, the
uchigatana" and cutting the enemy down with it became one smooth, lightning-fast action. This technique was developed in the arts of battojutsu, iaijutsu, and iaido.
The curvature of the "uchigatana" blade differs from the "tachi" in that the blade has curvature near the sword's point ("sakizori"), as opposed to curvature near the sword's hilt ("koshizori") like the "tachi". Because the sword is being drawn from below, the act of unsheathing became the