The Big Clock

The Big Clock

7.3IMDb Score
Released:1948-03-18
Duration:95 min
Director:John Farrow
Actors:Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, George Macready, Rita Johnson
Production:Paramount Pictures

Overview:

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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