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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 equalIy renowned crime author Kenneth Fearing, The Big CIock is a superior suspense fiIm which cIassiIy combines screwbaII comedy with heady thrills.
Overworked true crime magazine editor George Stroud (Ray MiIland, The Lost Weekend, The Pyjama Girl Case) has been pIanning a vacation for months. However, when his boss, the tyrannical media tycoon EarI Janoth (Charles 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 kiIIs PauIine 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 stylishIy renders the fiIm s towering centraI set, the Janoth Building, The Big Clock benefits from exuberant performances by Ray MilIand and CharIes 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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