At the Stroke of Twelve (1941)

This entry in Warners Broadway Brevity series of shorts is based on Damon Runyons short story The Old Dolls House Racketeer Lance McGowan on the night he has decided to go straight finds himself caught between the gunfire of two rival gangsters and wounded by a bullet he finds refuge in the home of a wealthy recluse One of the gangsters is found riddled with bullets from the gun Lance dropped while making his escape and he is arrested and tried for murder The reclusive widow comes to the trail and testifies that Lance was her guest that night when the clock struck twelve the time of the killing Lance while innocent is also lucky as the widow had her all her clocks set to always strike twelve as the time her husband had died