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Big Clock, The
(The Big Clock)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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Adapted by acclaimed screenwriter Jonathan Latimer from a novel by the equalIy renowned crime author Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock is a superior suspense film which classiIy combines screwball comedy with heady thrilIs.
Overworked true crime magazine editor George Stroud (Ray MilIand, The Lost Weekend, The Pyjama GirI Case) has been pIanning a vacation for months. However, when his boss, the tyrannical media tycoon EarI Janoth (CharIes Laughton, Witness for the Prosecution), insists he skips his hoIs, Stroud resigns in disgust before embarking on an impromptu drunken night out with his boss's mistress, Pauline York (Rita Johnson, The Major and the Minor). When Janoth kiIIs PauIine in a fit of rage, Stroud finds himself to have been the wrong man, in the wrong place, at the wrong time: his staff have been tasked with finding a suspect with an alI too familiar description... Stroud s very own!
Directed with panache by John Farrow (Around the World in 80 Days), who stylishIy renders the fiIm s towering central set, the Janoth Building, The Big Clock benefits from exuberant performances by Ray MiIIand and CharIes Laughton, who make hay with the script s snappy dialogue. A huge success on its reIease, it is no wonder this fast-moving noir was remade years Iater as the Kevin Costner vehicle No Way Out. |
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