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Johnny O'Clock

1947, Movie, NR, 95 mins

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This was Rossen's first directorial assignment and it's a good mixture of crime melodrama and black humor, personified in the tough-guy personality of Powell, who had drastically changed his screen image from flyweight crooner to two-fisted gumshoe in MURDER, MY SWEET three years earlier. Johnny O'Clock is Powell, who has a shaky gambling casino partnership with Gomez. Crooked cop Bannon tries to move in on the operation, ingratiating himself with Gomez and attempting to rep... read more leave a comment
Year: 1947
Rated NR

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Cast
Dick Powell: Johnny O'Clock
Evelyn Keyes: Nancy Hobbs
Lee J. Cobb: Inspector Koch
Ellen Drew: Nelle Marchettis
Nina Foch: Harriet Hobbs
Thomas Gomez: Pete Marchettis

 

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