The Clock is a 1945 film starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker and directed by Judy Garland's future husband, Vincente Minnelli. This was Garland's first dramatic role as well as the first motion picture she starred in, in which she did not sing.
In The Clock, a soldier, Joe Allen, on a 48-hour leave, meets Alice Mayberry in Pennsylvania Station when she trips over his duffel bag and breaks the heel off one of her shoes.
Although it is after ho...
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The Clock is a 1945 film starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker and directed by Judy Garland's future husband, Vincente Minnelli. This was Garland's first dramatic role as well as the first motion picture she starred in, in which she did not sing.
In The Clock, a soldier, Joe Allen, on a 48-hour leave, meets Alice Mayberry in Pennsylvania Station when she trips over his duffel bag and breaks the heel off one of her shoes.
Although it is after hours, Joe gets a shoe-repair shop owner to open his store, and the proprietor repairs her shoe. Alice asks Joe where he is going, and he says he is on leave but has no definite destination while in New York. He asks to accompany her on her way home and she points out landmarks along the way, including Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
When he asks her whether she is busy the next day, she says that she is. However, when he persists, chasing the bus she is riding down the street, she relents, promising to meet him under the clock...
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