The Big Clock (Universal Noir Collection)

The Big Clock (Universal Noir Collection)
by John Farrow

The Big Clock (Universal Noir Collection)
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Actor: Charles Laughton, George Macready, Maureen O'Sullivan, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson
Director: John Farrow
Brand: Universal
Cinematographer: Daniel L. Fapp
Cinematographer: John F. Seitz
Producer: John Farrow
Editor: LeRoy Stone
Producer: Richard Maibaum
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Writer: Kenneth Fearing
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios

Movie Reviews of The Big Clock (Universal Noir Collection)

Movie Review: tommyt
Summary: 4 Stars

i found this movie to be very exciting and thrilling. watching ray milland go after the killer is a lot of fun. even though you know at the
beginning that charles laughton killed her, you get to play along to see
how they will catch him. it is still thrilling to the end because ray
milland almost gets caught and he works hard to find the real killer.
old movies like this one make you appreciate how films should be made.
suspenseful with a litte humor thrown in helps make this a very good movie
to watch and enjoy.

Summary of The Big Clock (Universal Noir Collection)

A crime-magazine publisher kills his mistress then order his editor to lead a manhunt. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 07/06/2004 Starring: George Macready Bobby Watson Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Nr Director: John Farrow
What if you were asked to investigate a murder in which you were the prime suspect? From this seemingly impossible notion comes a grandly entertaining nail-biter. Charles Laughton plays the punctuality obsessed, slave-driving head of a publishing empire who won't let his crime magazine's star editor (Ray Milland) take a day off to spend with his family. The overworked Milland, having just upset a delayed honeymoon trip for the umpteenth time, goes on a sorrow-drowning, bar-hopping bender with a mysterious woman who, it turns out, is Laughton's mistress. Later that night after Milland has gone home, Laughton murders her, and the next day he assigns Milland to investigate, since a number of clues point to her having spent time with another man that night. Milland, then, must not only find the real murderer but sidetrack the investigation away from himself. That both characters are solving the crime in tandem yet unwittingly working toward pinning the murder on each other is at the heart of The Big Clock's labyrinthine brilliance. Helping bring out the dark humor in this adaptation of Kenneth Fearing's noir novel (included in the Library of America's Crime Novels collection) is Elsa Lanchester as a high-strung painter who can sketch the prime suspect (Milland), a time-bomb plot device that only adds to the already unbearable suspense. This is a taut, lean thriller, superbly handled by director John Farrow, who never fails to remind his audience through repeated use of clocks, timepieces, and watches that all too often in our lives that ticking sound is the enemy. This was remade in 1987 with Kevin Costner as No Way Out. --Robert Abele

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