Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This is a love letter to World War II New York City with a bit of horrific reality thrown in as an Army private (Robert Walker) on leave in the Big Apple for the very first time finds romance with a sweet young woman (Judy Garland in a non-singing role) after meeting by chance in Penn Station during a Sunday afternoon rush. She's convinced by him to show him around a bit, and they end up on a bus heading uptown on Fifth Avenue, go to the Central Park Zoo, and end up in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She's already committed for an evening date and breaks it with the promise to meet him under the clock in the Astor Hotel. From there, romance grows gradually as their personalities clash a bit, they fight a bit, make up, and end up on the all night route of a kindly milkman (James Gleason) who simply offered them a ride over to the East Side. By the time their first date is over, love has struck them, and he proposes to her. They only have another 24 hours in which to get a blood test to get the license and find a judge to override New York State regulations to get them hitched before he has to get back to boot camp.In watching this, it is ironic to see how much has changed in New York City and how much has not. The crowded subway trains seem twice as full here, and when Garland and Walker are separated at Grand Central, you can't help but feel their anguish as they try desperately to find each other in a city of over 10 million people. Every extra or minor character in this sweet romantic drama has a moment to shine, and some of them even shine more then the credited actors. One such delightful moment comes when Gleason, Garland and Walker end up in a diner and encounter the drunken Keenan Wynn who harasses everybody in the joint, most amusingly a very eccentric looking woman (Moyna MacGill). This lady is a combination Beatrice Lillie/Fanny Brice/Hermoine Gingold, and downright hysterical even without saying a word.Director Vincent Minnelli utilizes with great detail the city as another character in the film, whether it be the Fulton Street market where Gleason is obviously picking up his load of milk, various east side streets and even briefly Times Square. You really feel like you've been transported back to World War II, and in a wonderful follow-up to his similar character in "Since You Went Away", Robert Walker gives you hope that this time will work out. Judy Garland goes from the teenaged years of "Meet Me in St. Louis" to womanhood, and she rises highly above the ability to dramatically prove herself without the benefit of song. Outstanding photography, a touching musical score and sensational editing add to the power of this screenplay, making this valentine to love during wartime (in any city, not just New York) a wonderful trip down memory lane.

During WWII, sailor on two-day leave in NY meets a young woman and romance blossoms. This was the follow-up to "Meet Me in St. Louis" for Minnelli and Garland, and the pair wed shortly after this film was released. Garland and Walker (two actors who would have tragically short lives) work well together. This is a pleasant little movie, but nothing particularly memorable. The script is somewhat meandering, with random characters introduced (a milk man, a drunk) without rhyme or reason. It is perhaps too low-key and would have benefited from some dramatic developments in the plot or some more humor. A couple of songs by Judy would have enlivened things up a bit.

To live a beautiful love story need not ostentatious, or clipping or anything that exceeds what is innate in man... The only thing needed is given unconditionally from within, from the sincerity, respect, kindness is to be... prodigal in clean words, in looks transparent and edifying proposals. To live an unforgettable love story, you must not look for it, and only you feel that you are willing (to) give you when you feel entirely, before you, is crossed that being that, like a stroke of fate, feel he's the one. With a perfect match, the wonderful Judy Garland and Robert Walker efficient, both small in stature but big in heart, an original story of marriage Paul and Pauline Gallico, as simple as dry leaves that sit around a tree, but as great as your ability to see the human potential and the infinite love that two people can translucid simple and common. In times of war, Grand Central Station New York, is a soldier named Joe Allen, who has two days off before traveling to Europe to be part of the war there. Oblivious to the city, Joe feels adrift... until a small incident, puts it in the presence of a young office worker named Alice Mayberry. Alice and Joe. Joe and Alice. Two names that abound in the streets and seem lost in the crowds.But these two things modest, will take us down a path where we can see no pink roses, a black and white world that looks full of color sensitivity and tenderness. And with them, other unique and lovely human beings we will realize the warmth, generosity and simple greatness that abounds on every street. Vincente Minnelli is beyond the scope colorful, almost ostentatious, that characterized many of his films (especially musicals) to enter, with deliberate modesty, in a deep and meaningful story that many of those of high complex budget and paraphernalia, which financed the MGM. And hence arise after the marriage Minnelli-Garland, soon to spawn at that phenomenal voice of the great Liza Minnelli.If you are of those who get to see beauty in the strong wall of an old adobe house, a bent branch tree about to fall or a drop falling intermittently rippling in a small pond, "CLOCK" will come to you soul.Maxim Gorky was right when he wrote: "All that is truly wise is simple and clear."

THE CLOCK is a neat little film directed by Vincente Minnelli with a story by Paul Gallico.Robert Walker plays a naive soldier on leave in New York City where he meets Judy Garland, a secretary from a small town who has lived in the city for 3 years.They spend the day together, knowing only the other's first name and having a series of "adventures," most notably getting a ride from a milkman (James Gleason) and trying to get married. Of course they also lose each other in a subway crowd and find one another under "the clock." Minnelli has some terrific, long scenes here (no cuts) and loving closeups of the stars. The episodic nature of the narrative works well since the plot is the "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boys gets girl" theme.Keenan Wynn is a rather obnoxious drunk in a luncheonette scene that also features Moyna MacGill (Angela Lansbury's mother) in a funny bit. Marshall Thompson has a nothing bit, and Lucile Gleason is wonderful as Gleason's wife serving breakfast.Oddly, the basic plot of this film mirrors that of Paul Fejos' 1928 silent masterpiece LONESOME, which starred Glenn Tryon and Barbara Kent as workers in New York City who meet, spend a day together at Coney Island, and then lose one another in the crowds, knowing only the other's first name. THE CLOCK gives no credit to the Fejos film.Garland and Walker are exceptional as the young couple.