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Theatrical release poster Directed bt George Sidney, The Three Musketeers (1948) tells the story of D'Artagnan (Gene Kelly), an eager young swordsman living in 17th-century France who travels to Paris in order to join the elite King's Musketeers. Their commander, Captain Treville (Reginald Owen), initially refuses to let D'Artagnan in, but he changes his mind after the newcomer proves his expertise and audacity in a series of duels with the three most skillful Musketeers, Athos (Van Heflin), Porthos (Gig Young) and Aramis (Robert Coote). Later, D'Artagnan rescues and instantly falls in love with Constance Bonacieux (June Allyson), a confidante of Queen Anne (Angela Lansbury), and finds himself a dim-witted valet named Planchet (Kennan Wynn). Anne is engaged in a secret affair with the English Minister, the Duke of Buckingham (John Sutton), and foolishly gives him a set of matched diamond studs, which were a gift to her from her husband, King Louis XIII...

My initial plan for today was to write about a Linda Darnell film, seeing that today is her 92th birthday, but then I felt like celebrating Robert Walker's birthday again. What can I say? I simply adore that boy.  So, this week on "Film Friday" I a m bringing you yet another Robert Walker film, which also happens to be one of my absolute favorite films of all time. Theatrical release poster Directed by Vincente Minnelli, The Clock (1945) follows Joe Allen (Robert Walker), a young soldier who arrives in New York on a 48-hour leave and meets the beautiful secretary Alice Mayberry (Judy Garland) when she trips over his foot in Pennsylvania Station. With no definite destination while in the city, Joe offers to go "a little ways" with Alice and she then takes him on a tour through Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. After they bid farewell, Joe chases the bus she is riding down the street and she promises to meet him "under the clock at ...