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The Big Clock
George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.
1948 · Directed by John Farrow · 95 min · Crime · Thriller · 12 frames
Tagline
The Strangest and Most Savage Manhunt in History!
Crew
- Screenplay: Jonathan Latimer
- Cinematography: John F. Seitz
- Edited by: LeRoy Stone
- Music: Victor Young
- Produced by: Richard Maibaum
Cast
- Ray Milland as George Stroud
- Charles Laughton as Earl Janoth
- Maureen O'Sullivan as Georgette Stroud
- George Macready as Steve Hagen
- Rita Johnson as Pauline York
- Elsa Lanchester as Louise Patterson
- Harold Vermilyea as Don Klausmeyer
- Dan Tobin as Roy Cordette
- Harry Morgan as Bill Womack
- Richard Webb as Nat Sperling
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Italian
- Studios: Paramount Pictures
- Themes: new york city, based on novel or book, clock, magazine, film noir, murder, framed for a crime, publisher, crime fiction writer, sundial
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