{"id":40871,"date":"2025-12-31T08:49:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40871"},"modified":"2025-12-31T08:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:50:03","slug":"johnny-oclock-1947-starring-dick-powell-evelyn-keyes-and-lee-j-cobb-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40871","title":{"rendered":"“Johnny O’Clock” (1947) starring Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes and Lee J. Cobb \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Johnny O’Clock <\/strong><\/em>(1947)<\/p>\n

Director: Robert Rossen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Screenplay: Robert Rossen; <\/strong>story by Milton Holmes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stars: Dick Powell<\/strong>, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb, Ellen Drew, Nina Foch, Thomas Gomez, John Kellogg, Phil Brown, Fred Aldrich<\/strong> and Jeff Chandler.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tagline: Time Was Running Out For Johnny O’Clock … and so were his women!<\/em><\/p>\n

The Plot…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Johnny O’Clock runs a casino for gangster Guido Marchettis.\u00a0 Johnny is everything that Guido is not.\u00a0 Johnny is well-liked, well-spoken and a favorite of everyone… especially Nelle, Guido’s wife.\u00a0 She keeps her attraction to Johnny a secret from everyone but Johnny.<\/p>\n

Johnny has no interest in Nelle.\u00a0 That doesn’t stop Nelle from giving Johnny the gift of an expensive engraved watch.\u00a0 It’s an even better version of one she gave Guido on his birthday.\u00a0 Johnny doesn’t want the watch or Nelle’s attention.\u00a0 He writes a note telling Nelle to stop.\u00a0 Johnny gives the note and watch to the casino’s hat-check girl, Harriett to return to Nelle.<\/p>\n

The next day Harriett is found dead from an apparent suicide.\u00a0 \u00a0Harriett’s sister, Nancy is notified of her sister’s death.\u00a0 Nancy arrives wanting to know why her sister killed herself.\u00a0 She meets Johnny and they learn that Harriett was murdered.\u00a0 As Nancy and Johnny work to sort out who would want to kill Harriett, they begin to fall in love.<\/p>\n

Police Inspector Koch gets the case.\u00a0 He learns that Harriett was dating Chuck Blayden, a crooked cop interested in leaving the force and taking over Johnny’s role at the casino.\u00a0 Inspector Koch finds Johnny’s note and the expensive watch.\u00a0 This adds both Johnny and Guido to his list of suspects.\u00a0 It also makes Guido believe that Johnny and his wife, Nelle were having an affair.<\/p>\n

The person behind Harriett’s death decides Johnny is next… and Nancy too if she gets in the way.<\/p>\n

Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Johnny O’Clock<\/em> features Robert Rossen’s debut as a director.\u00a0 Although in a TCM interview Nina Foch (who played Harriett) asserted that Rossen wasn’t the film’s actual director.\u00a0 Foch never said who it was though.<\/p>\n

Jeff Chandler, although uncredited, appears in his second feature film role.\u00a0 Chandler credited Dick Powell for getting him the part.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed Johnny O’Clock<\/em> but most folks like it even more than I do.<\/p>\n

Johnny O’Clock <\/strong><\/em>(1947) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n

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