The Big Clock
Mar 18 1948
•2h 35m
•Crime, Thriller
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.
Cast
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Ray Milland
George Stroud
Charles Laughton
Earl Janoth
Maureen O'Sullivan
Georgette Stroud
George Macready
Steve Hagen
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