

The Big Clock
The Strangest and Most Savage Manhunt in History!
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.
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- English
- 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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United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)Detroit, Michigan18 Mar 1948
- Theatrical9 Apr 1948
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG9 Apr 1948
FranceFR
- TheatricalU17 Jun 1949
- PhysicalUDVD4 Jul 2007
- PhysicalUBlu-Ray25 May 2021
PortugalPT
- Theatrical29 Apr 1949
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The Big Clock was released on 18 March 1948.
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1- J9/10
John Chard
1/5/2019
How did I get into this rat race? Egomaniac publisher Earl Janoth (Charles Laughton) murders his mistress in a fit of temper. He then uses all his power and connections to pin the crime on another man seen close to the crime. George Stroud (Ray Milland), editor of Janoth's own Crimeways magazine, is put in charge of tracing the mystery man. Which is fine until he finds that as he digs deeper, all the evidence po…
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