There's a Graduate vibe to The Clock, a non-musical romance starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker. He's a lonely soldier on leave in New York for two days. He meets the girls of his dreams. They spend the day together and don't want it to end (the milk delivery stuff is excellent), finding excuses to keep it going, and it could be devastating if they lose each in such a big city. It's when the decided they should get married to keep it going forever that they actually do lose each other, wasting what little time they have running after paperwork and judges as that eponymous clocks ticks away. And it's all such a rush, the flip side of the proverbial "whirlwind", that it loses the gentle, awkward romance of previous moments. The story allows us to stay in that final moment at the back of the bus in The Graduate for a while. Have they made a mistake? And then lo and behold, they snatch romance from the jaws of disappointing reality, bounce back, and make me wish the movie was a little more aware of history - it came out in 1945, the war should have been cancelled at the most heart-wrenching moment! And yet, I like the hopeful coda we get instead.
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There's a Graduate vibe to The Clock, a non-musical romance starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker. He's a lonely soldier on leave in New York for two days. He meets the girls of his dreams. They spend the day together and don't want it to end (the milk delivery stuff is excellent), finding excuses to keep it going, and it could be devastating if they lose each in such a big city. It's when the decided they should get married to keep it going forever that they actually do lose each other, wasting what little time they have running after paperwork and judges as that eponymous clocks ticks away. And it's all such a rush, the flip side of the proverbial "whirlwind", that it loses the gentle, awkward romance of previous moments. The story allows us to stay in that final moment at the back of the bus in The Graduate for a while. Have they made a mistake? And then lo and behold, they snatch romance from the jaws of disappointing reality, bounce back, and make me wish the movie was a little more aware of history - it came out in 1945, the war should have been cancelled at the most heart-wrenching moment! And yet, I like the hopeful coda we get instead.