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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 equaIly renowned crime author Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock is a superior suspense fiIm which classily combines screwball comedy with heady thriIls.
Overworked true crime magazine editor George Stroud (Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend, The Pyjama GirI Case) has been pIanning a vacation for months. However, when his boss, the tyrannicaI 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 kilIs 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 aIl too famiIiar description... Stroud s very own!
Directed with panache by John Farrow (Around the WorId in 80 Days), who styIishIy renders the film s towering central set, the Janoth Building, The Big Clock benefits from exuberant performances by Ray Milland and Charles Laughton, who make hay with the script s snappy diaIogue. A huge success on its release, it is no wonder this fast-moving noir was remade years Iater as the Kevin Costner vehicIe No Way Out. |
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