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Deadline at Dawn is a 1946 American film noir, the only film directed by stage director Harold Clurman. It was written by Clifford Odets and based on a novel of the same name by Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish).
Deadline at Dawn: Directed by Harold Clurman, William Cameron Menzies. With Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams, Joseph Calleia. After a woman he meets is murdered, a soon-to-ship-out sailor has until dawn to find the killer, aided by a weary dance hall girl.
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Deadline at Dawn is an exceedingly well-directed noir infused with the proletarian spirit of progressive 30's theater. Some may consider its stylized dialogue a literary conceit, and conclude that its author is patronizing the working class.
A sailor on leave, Alex (Bill Williams), wakes up after getting drunk in the apartment of a woman named Edna, with a huge wad of cash. He goes to return it, and finds her dead. He enlists a dance hall girl, June (Susan Hayward), to help him figure out who murdered Edna, so he doesn’t get blamed.
After a woman he meets is murdered, a soon-to-ship-out sailor has until dawn to find the killer, aided by a weary dance hall girl.
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout. Harold Clurman. Director. Cornell Woolrich. Novel. Clifford Odets. Screenplay. Written by John Chard on February 16, 2020.
