The Big Clock

“The Strangest and Most Savage Manhunt in History!”

7.3(179)19481h 35m

CrimeThriller

George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss 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 that he is the killer.

Director

John Farrow

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Cast

Ray Milland

George Stroud

Charles Laughton

Earl Janoth

Maureen O'Sullivan

Georgette Stroud

George Macready

Steve Hagen

Rita Johnson

Pauline York

Elsa Lanchester

Louise Patterson

Harold Vermilyea

Don Klausmeyer

Dan Tobin

Roy Cordette

Harry Morgan

Bill Womack

Richard Webb

Nat Sperling

Elaine Riley

Lily Gold

Luis van Rooten

Edwin Orlin

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1 review

John Chard

7y ago

9.0

How did I get into this rat race? Egomaniac publisher Earl Janoth (Charles Laughton) murders his mistress in a fit of temper. He then uses all his power and connections to pin the crime on another man seen close to the crime. George Stroud (Ray Milland), editor of Janoth's own Crimeways magazine, is put in charge of tracing the mystery man. Which is fine until he finds that as he digs deeper,...