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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 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.
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.
If there’s such thing as a quaint film noir, Harold Clurman’s Deadline at Dawn just might be it. Based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich and taking place over the course of a few nocturnal (and surreal) hours in the Big Apple, the film combines an unmistakable fatalism (the first line of dialogue is “Aren’t you dead yet?”) with an ...