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Jul 21, 2021 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Zesty performances and superb art direction -- the Janoth Publications building, complete with the titular object, is an architectural marvel...
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- Ray Milland
- John Farrow
- Crime, Drama
First-rate 'noirish' thriller with comedy. Wonderful thriller as Milland tries to prove his innocence while Laughton plots to get away with murder. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the...
Apr 28, 2006 · The Big Clock Review. Tyrannical publisher Earl Janoth murders his mistress by stabbing her with a toy sundial, then uses all the resources of his organisation to pin the crime on a mystery man...
The Big Clock is a 1948 American thriller directed by John Farrow and adapted by novelist-screenwriter Jonathan Latimer from the 1946 novel of the same title by Kenneth Fearing. The black-and-white film is set in New York City, and stars Ray Milland, Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Sullivan.
May 11, 2019 · 05/11/19. Arrow Academy. Blu-ray. Clever plotting goes into overdrive for this light-comedy proto-paranoid film noir about a magazine publishing empire so organized that it seems a sci-fi invention from the future.
May 7, 2019 · John Farrow’s inexplicably neglected 1948 thriller The Big Clock is a difficult work to pigeonhole, combining traces of noir, screwball comedy and suspense.
Oct 21, 2023 · The Big Clock is a really entertaining, often quite funny, wrong-man noir. Ray Milland is a true crime editor just trying to go on his honeymoon (like a Hildy Johnson type) when he is embroiled in a murder.
