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The dialogue contains Odets' trademark New York wisecracks. For example, while dancing at club early in the movie, the Hayward character likens the dance hall to a post office, filled with second-class matter. Edna Bartelli greets her ex-husband by saying, "Aren't you dead yet?"
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There are many "slice of life" characterizations of big city people in small roles, such as a tired banana salesman, an angry building superintendent, a refugee with a skin condition who has a crush on June, and a wisecracking sidewalk pitchman.
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Film critic Dennis Schwartz somewhat liked the film, writing, "Broadway's Harold Clurman takes his only stab at film directing, after the breakup of his Group Theatre, in this odd
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noted for its flowery dialogue and muddled story line ... It's penned by playwright Clifford Odets from a story by Cornell Woolrich. Though enjoyable by virtue of its distorted
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used no location shots but was filmed entirely in the studio's back lots. Cinematographer Nick Musuraca does a fine job creating an atmospheric scene of
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men with whom she had had affairs, thus many suspects are possible. The woman's brother Val (
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film release was the only cinematic collaboration between Clurman and his former
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associate, screenwriter Odets. The director of photography was RKO regular
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appears in a bit part, as a grief-stricken man with a dying cat.
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Warner Bros. released the film on DVD on July 13, 2010, in its
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involve a blind piano player named Sleepy Parsons (
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Index


Harold Clurman
Clifford Odets
Deadline at Dawn
Cornell Woolrich
Susan Hayward
Paul Lukas
Bill Williams
Nicholas Musuraca
Roland Gross
Hanns Eisler
RKO Pictures
film noir
Harold Clurman
Clifford Odets
novel of the same name
Cornell Woolrich
RKO Pictures
Group Theatre
Nicholas Musuraca
Hanns Eisler
Bill Williams
Lola Lane
dance-hall girl
Susan Hayward
Paul Lukas
Norfolk, Virginia
red herrings
Marvin Miller
blackmailing

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