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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 novel by Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish). The RKO Radio Picture was shot in black and white. This film was the only cinematic collaboration between Clurman and his former Group Theatre associate, screenwriter Odets. The Director of Photography was RKO Pictures regular Nicholas Musuraca.PlotBill Williams, a young Navy sailor, 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 visited earlier in the evening. With the help of a dance hall girl (Hayward), he attempts to return the money only to find out the woman he stole the cash from is dead. The sailor isn't sure if he's the killer or not. The pair, along with a philosophical cabbie (Paul Lucas), stay up all night attempting to solve the murder mystery before the sailor has to catch a bus to the naval base in Norfolk, VA in the morning. Their deadline is at dawn.Cast
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