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Release Date:
November 15, 1941
Original Title:
At the Stroke of Twelve
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 20
This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan, on the night he has decided to go straight, finds himself caught between the gunfire of two rival gangsters and, wounded by a bullet, he finds refuge in the home of a wealthy recluse. One of the gangsters is found riddled with bullets from the gun Lance dropped while making his escape, and he is arrested and tried for murder. The reclusive widow comes to the trail and testifies that Lance was her guest that night when the clock struck twelve, the time of the killing. Lance, while innocent, is also lucky, as the widow had her all her clocks set to always strike twelve, as the time her husband had died.
Art Direction:
Charles Novi
Associate Producer:
Gordon Hollingshead
Director:
Jean Negulesco
Director of Photography:
Ted D. McCord
Editor:
Everett Dodd
Music:
Howard Jackson
Sound:
Stanley Jones
Writer:
Harold Medford
Damon Runyon
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