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The Clock

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While on a two day leave in New York City, soldier Joe Allen (Robert Walker) meets secretary Alice Mayberry (Judy Garland) when she trips over him. They hit it off, and Alice decides to show Joe around. As they tour the sights of New York, they begin to fall in love. After inadvertently meeting a milk deliveryman (James Gleason), they befriend him and help him finish his route. The next morning, they decide they should get married before Joe must return to duty.
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Richard Brody The New Yorker 04/14/2020
This rapturous wartime romance, starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker, is also a rowdy and tender paean to the liberating vitality of New York's public life and its chance encounters. Go to Full Review James Agee TIME Magazine 02/28/2018
Director Vincente Minnelli's talents are so many-sided and generous that he turns even the most over-contrived romanticism into something memorable. Go to Full Review Sean Burns Crooked Marquee 06/23/2022
A musical in spirit, if not execution. Judy Garland doesn’t sing, but she might as well. Go to Full Review Mattie Lucas From the Front Row 06/15/2022
3.5/4
One of Garland's finest films, and one of the era's most piercing romances. Go to Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy 06/12/2022
3/4
As the couple spend time together and we spend time with the couple, the film blossoms into a touching romance. Go to Full Review Andrew Chan 4Columns 04/10/2020
Like all the best melodramas, it shows us how society is set up to keep our hopelessly ambiguous interior worlds in check. But all you have to do is look at Garland to feel that racing pulse beneath the skin...she knew that love is anxiety. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Richard G 5d Judy Garland's first foray into a strictly dramatic performance has her as a young New Yorker, who encounters a soldier on a 48-hour leave. Their developing relationship takes them from strangers to two people discovering all of there is to know about the other, and quickly falling in love. Director Minnelli really wanted to make NYC a central character in the telling of this simple story and succeeded beyond expectations. The performances of Robert Walker as the soldier and Garland blended together so well, you would think they really a couple in love, telling their story. See more Frances H 01/19/2024 These two people were written as too dub for words! Much better film with Robert Walker has him opposite Jennifer Hones, who he married later, but then Hones was a much better actress. That film was Since you went Away, and if you want to see a better movie, go watch it instead of this one! See more Aldo G 06/08/2023 A simply love story that contains one scene - a reunion - that will touch those emotional chords a film like this should do. It was Judy Garland's first role playing an adult and she delivers. Robert Walker isn't who I would have cast (Jack Lemmon, maybe), but he's acceptable. See more 06/18/2022 A wonderful WW2 romantic tale represents the times. See more Jesse D 09/07/2021 A dear, beautiful, kindhearted movie. See more David Windsor 03/03/2020 Absolutely charming. See more Read all reviews
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Vincente Minnelli

Director

Judy Garland

Alice Maybery

Robert Walker

Cpl. Joe Allen

James Gleason

Al Henry

Keenan Wynn

The Drunk

Marshall Thompson

Bill

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Movie Info

Synopsis While on a two day leave in New York City, soldier Joe Allen (Robert Walker) meets secretary Alice Mayberry (Judy Garland) when she trips over him. They hit it off, and Alice decides to show Joe around. As they tour the sights of New York, they begin to fall in love. After inadvertently meeting a milk deliveryman (James Gleason), they befriend him and help him finish his route. The next morning, they decide they should get married before Joe must return to duty.
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Producer
Arthur Freed
Screenwriter
Robert Nathan, Joseph Schrank
Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Genre
Romance
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 25, 1945, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 1, 2009
Runtime
1h 30m
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