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Friday Noir: ‘Deadline at Dawn’ throws a lot together…but little of it sticks

20 July 2012 6:17 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

 

Deadline at Dawn

Directed by Harold Clurman

Written by Clifford Odets

U.S.A, 1946

Believability is a funny thing in movies. When two film fans enter a debate surrounding the merits of a picture, with one party claiming the story stretched the limits of credibility, a natural reply might be that the film requires one to raise their level of disbelief in order to be fully engaged. That debate may or may not be settled, but what everyone can agree on is that one’s lack of belief in character behaviour or plot revelations is a very personal thing. Sometimes, the real reason why how a given character behaved did not sit well is too opaque to decipher. It is an unfortunate predicament, that being to attempt an explanation as to why said film did not work beyond…it just did not work. In a first in the Friday Noir column, »

- Edgar Chaput

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