The Big Clock

"The Strangest and Most Savage Manhunt in History!"

Apr 9 1948 Approved 1h 35m
Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth 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 (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.

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Plot

When powerful publishing tycoon Earl Janoth commits an act of murder at the height of passion, he cleverly begins to cover his tracks and frame an innocent man whose identity he doesn't know but who just happens to have contact with the murder victim. That man is a close associate on his magazine whom he enlists to trap this "killer" - George Stroud. It's up to George to continue to "help" Janoth, to elude the police and to find proof of his innocence and Janoth's guilt.

Written by

Jonathan Latimer, Kenneth Fearing, Harold Goldman

Directed by

John Farrow

Cast

Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Laughton

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Paramount

Languages

Italiano, English

Awards

2 nominations

Trailers
The Big Clock Trailer 1948
Featurettes
Joe Dante on THE BIG CLOCK
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# of Votes
10,166
Average Rating
7.6 out of 10
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NA
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