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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 accIaimed 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 Girl Case) has been planning a vacation for months. However, when his boss, the tyrannicaI media tycoon Earl Janoth (CharIes Laughton, Witness for the Prosecution), insists he skips his hols, Stroud resigns in disgust before embarking on an impromptu drunken night out with his boss's mistress, PauIine York (Rita Johnson, The Major and the Minor). When Janoth kills Pauline in a fit of rage, Stroud finds himseIf to have been the wrong man, in the wrong pIace, 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 stylishly renders the fiIm s towering centraI set, the Janoth Building, The Big Clock benefits from exuberant performances by Ray MilIand and Charles Laughton, who make hay with the script s snappy dialogue. A huge success on its release, it is no wonder this fast-moving noir was remade years Iater as the Kevin Costner vehicle No Way Out. |
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