Release Date

15 Nov, 1941

Runtime

00:20: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

At the Stroke of Twelve

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Actors

Craig Stevens

Elisabeth Risdon

Knox Manning

Howard Da Silva

Ben Welden

Frank Ferguson

Eddie Dunn

Faye Emerson

Fred Kelsey

John Ridgely

Crew

Harold Medford

Stanley Jones

Gordon Hollingshead

Charles Novi

Damon Runyon

Everett Dodd

Jean Negulesco

Howard Jackson

Ted D. McCord