The Clock
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DVD Cover Information Actor: James Gleason, Judy Garland, Keenan Wynn, Marshall Thompson, Robert Walker Director: Fred Zinnemann, Tex Avery, Vincente Minnelli Brand: Warner Brothers Writer: Heck Allen Writer: Joe Ansen Writer: Joseph Schrank Writer: Paul Gallico Writer: Pauline Gallico DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0 Format: Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 90 minutes DVD Release Date: 2007-02-06 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Model: 79502 Studio: Warner Home Video |
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Movie Reviews of The Clock
Movie Review: Great Acting in a Wacky Plotline
Summary: 2 Stars
Compared to most of the other reviews, I'm sure mine will seem like a cynical, bitter pill. I'm under the age of 50, so I'm sure that might have something to do with my opinion as well.
Listen: I love movies from the golden era as much as the next guy, but this overly sentimental bomb is saved only by Judy's presence in an otherwise near-psychotic piece of Hollywood drivel. I'd rather watch Wizard of Oz, at least I know I'm watching a fairy tale ahead of time.
Since others have given the basic plot line, I'll skip to the parts that I thought were completely implausable.
It takes a great deal of suspended disbelief to swallow this movie. The fact that they have not exchanged more than first names after 24 hours is a great example. People do more than that even in today's fast-paced dating scene, so I'm sure that in that age you'd need a bit more info before falling in love and getting married, regardless of impending war.
The dialogue in the park scene was absurd and the odd music (complete with angelic vocals)under the scene where they somehow unrealistically fall in love made it seem extremely... well, unrealistic.
A ride from the milkman in order to get home from the park? Sure, I'll swallow that. Delivering the milk for him? I doubt it, even in that innocent time.
Then we get to the cafe scene. Pure Fellini. The drunk and the extremely odd woman at the bar made it seem like a nightmare scene at best. More odd was the fact that Judy's character just smiled, chatted and drank her coffee during the whole scene, nearly obvlivious.
The "let's get married right now" and "we have to get a liscense and blood test before 4:00 PM" writing, acting and montages were all heavy-handed at best. And the wacky dialogue and plot turns through this section made the film fall lower than it should have.
My favorite scene: During the wedding dinner at the cafe, when Alice laments her wedding as "ugly" and cries. The whole drama is being watched by the kitchen help at the next table, strategically placed close and dead-center in the shot between the two stars, simply ruining an otherwise nice bit of acting.
Minnelli might have known what to do with musicals, but he bruised this movie with poor choices throughout. Parts of this turkey were downright laughable, and not in the right places.