
Feature film — 1948
The Big Clock (1948)
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.
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A high-signal pick with 194 votes.
Paramount Pictures
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Director: John Farrow
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Cast & crew

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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