The Big Clock (1948)

  • NR
  • 03/18/1948 (US)
  • Crime, Thriller
  • 1h 35m

The Strangest and Most Savage Manhunt in History!

Overview

Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer. In the book it is based on George Stroud is clearly having an affair with Pauline. Even more shocking, Janoth kills Pauline when she accuses him, with some justification, not of having a series of affairs with his secretaries but of being his associate Hagen’s homosexual lover. Pauline, in turn, is described as bisexual. Remade years later as "No Way Out" starring Kevin Costner.

John Farrow

Director

Kenneth Fearing

Novel

Jonathan Latimer

Screenplay

Cast

Ray Milland's headshot

Ray Milland

George Stroud
Charles Laughton's headshot

Charles Laughton

Earl Janoth
Maureen O'Sullivan's headshot

Maureen O'Sullivan

Georgette Stroud
George Macready's headshot

George Macready

Steve Hagen
Rita Johnson's headshot

Rita Johnson

Pauline York
Elsa Lanchester's headshot

Elsa Lanchester

Louise Patterson
Harold Vermilyea's headshot

Harold Vermilyea

Don Klausmeyer
Dan Tobin's headshot

Dan Tobin

Roy Cordette

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