BIG CLOCK [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1948
• Genre: Drama; Film-Noir; Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Adapted by acclaimed screenwriter Jonathan Latimer from a novel by the equally renowned crime author Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock is a superior suspense film which classily combines screwball comedy with heady thrills.; Overworked true crime magazine editor George Stroud (Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend, The Pyjama Girl Case) has been planning a vacation for months. However, when his boss, the tyrannical media tycoon Earl 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, Pauline 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 all too familiar description... Stroud s very own! ; Directed with panache by John Farrow (Around the World in 80 Days), who stylishly 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 dialogue. A huge success on its release, it is no wonder this fast-moving noir was remade years later as the Kevin Costner vehicle No Way Out.
• Cast: Ray Milland; Charles Laughton; Maureen O'Sullivan; George Macready; Rita Johnson; Elsa Lanchester; Harold Vermilyea; Dan Tobin; Harry Morgan; Richard Webb; Elaine Riley; Luis Van Rooten; Lloyd Corrigan; Frank Orth; Margaret Field; Philip Van Zandt; Henri Letondal; Douglas Spencer; Bobby Watson; B.G. Norman; Joey Ray; Frances Morris; Harry Rosenthal; Ernö Verebes; James Burke; Lucille Barkley; Eric Alden; Bea Allen; Harry Anderson; Dorothy Barrett; Brooks Benedict; Bill Burt; Lane Chandler; Bob Coleman; Frances Conley; Mary Currier; Jim Davies; Lester Dorr; Virginia Duffy; Ralph Dunn; Wally Earl; Skippy Elliott; Lee Emery; Franklyn Farnum; Julia Faye; Bess Flowers; Robbie Franks; Henry Guttman; Chuck Hamilton; Theresa Harris; Len Hendry; Earle Hodgins; Stuart Holmes; Jerry James; Lucy Knoch; Bob Kortman; Anton Leader; Norman Leavitt; Lillian Lindsco; Jean Marshall; William Meader; Lee Miller; Darlene Mohilef; Bert Moorhouse; Noel Neill; Barry Norton; Judy Nugent; Garry Owen; Pepito Pérez; Sheila Raven; Gordon Richards; Ruth Roman; Robert Stevenson; Diane Stewart; Harland Tucker; Tad Van Brunt; Joe Whitehead; Napoleon Whiting; Kathy Young; John Farrow; Jonathan Latimer; Kenneth Fearing; Richard Maibaum; John F. Seitz; Daniel L. Fapp; LeRoy Stone; Victor Young; Roland Anderson; Hans Dreier; Albert Nozaki
• Director: John Farrow
• Runtime: 1:36
• Company: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Universal Pictures
• Media Format: Movie