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The Clock

  • 19451945
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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Judy Garland and Robert Walker in The Clock (1945)
In 1945, during a 48-hour leave, a soldier accidentally meets a girl at Pennsylvania Station and spends his leave with her, eventually falling in love with the lovely New Yorker.
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In 1945, during a 48-hour leave, a soldier accidentally meets a girl at Pennsylvania Station and spends his leave with her, eventually falling in love with the lovely New Yorker.In 1945, during a 48-hour leave, a soldier accidentally meets a girl at Pennsylvania Station and spends his leave with her, eventually falling in love with the lovely New Yorker.In 1945, during a 48-hour leave, a soldier accidentally meets a girl at Pennsylvania Station and spends his leave with her, eventually falling in love with the lovely New Yorker.
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
3.7K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
16,930
5,100
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    • Directors
      • Vincente Minnelli
      • Fred Zinnemann(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Robert Nathan(screen play)
      • Joseph Schrank(screen play)
      • Paul Gallico(story)
    • Stars
      • Judy Garland
      • Robert Walker
      • James Gleason
    Top credits
    • Directors
      • Vincente Minnelli
      • Fred Zinnemann(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Robert Nathan(screen play)
      • Joseph Schrank(screen play)
      • Paul Gallico(story)
    • Stars
      • Judy Garland
      • Robert Walker
      • James Gleason
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    • 74User reviews
    • 35Critic reviews
    • Awards
      • 2 wins

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    Judy Garland
    Judy Garland
    • Alice Maybery
    Robert Walker
    Robert Walker
    • Corporal Joe Allen
    James Gleason
    James Gleason
    • Al Henry
    Keenan Wynn
    Keenan Wynn
    • The Drunk
    Marshall Thompson
    Marshall Thompson
    • Bill
    Lucile Gleason
    Lucile Gleason
    • Mrs. Al Henry
    Ruth Brady
    Ruth Brady
    • Helen
    Eddie Acuff
    Eddie Acuff
    • First Subway Official
    • (uncredited)
    Florence Allen
    Florence Allen
    • Woman in Penn Station
    • (uncredited)
    Jack Arkin
    • Man in Penn Station
    • (uncredited)
    Jessie Arnold
    Jessie Arnold
    • Woman in Penn Station
    • (uncredited)
    Paulita Arvizu
    • Woman in Penn Station
    • (uncredited)
    King Baggot
    King Baggot
    • Man in Subway
    • (uncredited)
    William Bailey
    William Bailey
    • Seal Act Spectator in Park
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    E.J. Ballantine
    E.J. Ballantine
    • Hymie Schwartz
    • (uncredited)
    Charles Bates
    Charles Bates
    • Child
    • (uncredited)
    Jack Baxley
    • Information Clerk
    • (uncredited)
    Bunny Beatty
    Bunny Beatty
    • Nurse
    • (uncredited)
    • Directors
      • Vincente Minnelli
      • Fred Zinnemann(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Robert Nathan(screen play)
      • Joseph Schrank(screen play)
      • Paul Gallico(story)
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      The wife of the milkman, played by James Gleason is Gleason's real-life wife Lucile Gleason.
    • Goofs
      As they're riding up Fifth Avenue on the bus, she points out Radio City and St. Patrick's Cathedral. Radio City isn't on Fifth Avenue, it's on Sixth Avenue. A moment or so later, as the continue riding up Fifth Avenue, the statue of Atlas at Rockefeller Center is seen in the rear projection background. The statue is directly across from the cathedral, which they should've passed already.
    • Quotes

      Alice Maybery: Sometimes when a girl dates a soldier she isn't only thinking of herself. She knows he's alone and far away from home and no one to talk to and... What are you staring at?

      Corporal Joe Allen: You've got brown eyes.

    • Alternate versions
      Also shown in computer colorized version.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli (1973)
    • Soundtracks
      If I Had You
      (uncredited)

      Music by Ted Shapiro, Jimmy Campbell and Reginald Connelly

      Heard as background music

    User reviews74

    Review
    Top review
    9/10
    If people thought about all the things that could happen they'd never do anything!
    ***SPOILERS*** The film "The Clock" ends where it began at the vast spacious and impersonal Pennsylvania Train Station in NYC as we see Alice, Judy Garland, disappear as the camera pull away and she's become just a small speck in the mass of humanity milling around there.

    During the proceeding 48 hours Alice met by chance a young soldier Joe, Robert Walker, on a two-day pass before he's to be shipped over the Atlantic to England and eventually to the bloody battlegrounds in France and Germany to fight in the European Theater of War. During that time Alice and Joe fall in love have a whirlwind romance take a night-time sight-seeing ride of the city on a milk truck with milkman Al Henry (James Gleason), whom they helped in making his early morning deliveries. Later after getting married the two leave each other, Joe for the European battlefield and Alice for her home and job, knowing that it was fate that brought them together and it will be fate, that in the end, will bring them back together again after the war is over.

    A very cute and adorable 22 year-old Judy Garland in her first adult, as well as non-singing, role playing Alice the type of girl that every GI would want to have waiting for them back home. Robert Walker is very effective as the naive and befuddled small town boy in the big city who finds, among the millions of people living and working there, the one girl that he's always been looking for to bring home and meet the parents as well as marry.

    Touching little wartime romance involving two persons from totally different backgrounds and localities who would have never met if it wasn't for circumstances beyond their control, WWII, that in a strange and mysterious way brought them together more then anything else ever could. Besides the touching and poignant story and wonderful chemistry between the two top stars, Judy Garland & Robert Walker, "The Clock" was beautifully photographed with a stunning and nostalgic look at war-time, 1945, New York City. The film also brought out the people who lived there and how the war affected them and those that went "Over There" as well as those who were soon to go "Over There" to fight, and possibly die, "Over There".

    There was a very touching scene at a almost empty church with Alice and Joe quietly taking the vows of matrimony that would bring you, like it did them, to tears. This after the chaotic scene at the Justice of the Peace office in City Hall that had Alice wondering if she did, in marrying Joe, the right thing in the first place P.S She Did.
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    • Mar 27, 2005

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    • Release date
      • May 25, 1945 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Italian
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Under the Clock
    • Filming locations
      • Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $1,324,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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