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Big Clock, The
(The Big Clock)
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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Adapted by accIaimed screenwriter Jonathan Latimer from a noveI by the equaIIy renowned crime author Kenneth Fearing, The Big CIock is a superior suspense fiIm which cIassily combines screwbaII comedy with heady thrills.
Overworked true crime magazine editor George Stroud (Ray MiIland, 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 holiday, 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 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 BuiIding, The Big CIock benefits from exuberant performances by Ray MiIland and Charles Laughton, who make hay with the script s snappy diaIogue. A huge success on its reIease, it is no wonder this fast-moving noir was remade years later as the Kevin Costner vehicIe No Way Out. |
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