DVD Review: The Clock

(1945, Black & White, 90 min.)
Director: Vincente Minnelli

The sweetest, most tender comedy-drama yet produced about a soldier and a girl - Wanda Hale, New York Daily News

It's wartime, and young people are rushing into hasty - sometimes unwise - marriages. But not pretty, level-headed Alice. Then she meets Joe, a G. I. on a two-day pass, and falls heart-over-level head in love.

Judy Garland and Robert Walker are sweethearts for the ages in this glowing valentine of a movie directed by Vincente Minnelli (who, to add another layer of radiant romance, was about to marry his leading lady). And New York itself takes a role, transforming the whirlwind courtship into a love triangle. The city helps and hinders, holding the young lovers in a warm embrace one moment, then tossing up funny, frustrating roadblocks the next. The National Board of Review named The Clock one of the top ten movies of 1945. Film fans rate it even higher. They know The Clock is timeless, one of the great cinema loves of a lifetime.

Special Features

Vintage Pete Smith Specialty Short Hollywood Scout

Classic cartoon The Screwy Truant

Audio-only bonus: Radio Show Adaptation with Judy Garland and John Hodiak

Theatrical Trailer

Subtitles: English (Feature Film Only)
Encoding: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Standard Version Presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition
Film Studio: MGM
DVD Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: February 6, 2007
UPC: 012569795020