Noir Alley: Eddie Muller on Deadline At Dawn (1946)

Deadline At Dawn (1946) -- (Movie Clip) It Rhymes With Moon

Savvy New York taxi-dancer June (Susan Hayward) has volunteered to accompany small-town on-leave sailor Alex (Bill Williams) as he tries to return a bundle of cash he thinks he must have stolen while drunk, in Deadline At Dawn, 1946, from a Cornell Woolrich story.

Deadline At Dawn (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Marry John Barrymore

Hung-over on-leave sailor Alex (Bill Williams) in Manhattan, having awakened not knowing how he got $1,400 in cash, meets taxi-dancer June (Susan Hayward) who's been dealing with a client (Edgar Caldwell) and a bouncer (Edward Gargan), in Deadline At Dawn, 1946.

Deadline At Dawn (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Let's Melt Some Ice Together

Sailor Alex (Bill Williams), secretly afraid he’s committed a murder while drunk, is reluctant to part with kindly cabbie Gus (Paul Lukas), but meets taxi-dancer June (Susan Hayward) back at the scene, both discovering they still haven’t found evidence clearing him, in Deadline At Dawn, 1946.

Deadline At Dawn (1946) -- (Movie Clip) The Sailor Took It

Blind "Sleepy" (Marvin Miller) having walked upstairs during credits, woozy Edna (Lola Lane) finds the money she owes him gone, from a story by Cornell Woolrich, script by Clifford Odets, the only film by noted stage director Harold Clurman, Deadline At Dawn, 1946, starring Susan Hayward.