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Deadline at Dawn is a american film of genre Thriller directed by William Cameron Menzies released in USA on 3 april 1946 with Susan Hayward

Deadline at Dawn (1946)

Deadline at Dawn
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Released in USA 3 april 1946
Length 1h23
OriginUSA
Genres Thriller,    Noir,    Crime,    Romance
Rating67% 3.393843.393843.393843.393843.39384

Deadline at Dawn is a 1946 film noir, the only film directed by stage director Harold Clurman. It was written by Clifford Odets and based on a novella by Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish). The RKO Pictures film release was the only cinematic collaboration between Clurman and his former Group Theatre associate, screenwriter Odets. The director of photography was RKO regular Nicholas Musuraca. The musical score was by German refugee composer Hanns Eisler.

Synopsis

U.S. Navy sailor Alex Winkley (Bill Williams) wakes up from a night of drinking in New York City and finds he has a wad of cash. His memory is hazy, but he knows he got it from a woman he had visited earlier in the evening, Edna Bartelli (Lola Lane).

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