Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 89: Mon Mar 31

The Clock (Minnelli, 1945): Prince Charles Cinema, 6.10pm


This film is on offer at £1 for Prince Charles Cinema members.

Chicago Reader review:
Vincente Minnelli's first non-musical (1945) is a charming and stylish if somewhat sentimental love story about a soldier (Robert Walker) on a two-day leave in New York who meets and marries an office worker (Judy Garland). Filmed on a studio soundstage with enough expertise to make it seem like a location shoot, the film is appealing largely for its performances and the innocence it projects. (Similar qualities can be found, at a half-century remove, in Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise.) In addition to Walker and Garland, Keenan Wynn and Moyna Macgill are well used.
Jonathan Rosenbaum

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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