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The Strangest and Most Savage Manhunt in History! - The Big Clock
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Title: The Big Clock

Release Date: 18 Mar 1948

Runtime: 1h 35m

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Director: Paramount Pictures

Production Companies: Paramount Pictures

Overview: 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.

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Average Vote: 7.3 (163 votes)

Cast

  • George Stroud: Ray Milland
  • Earl Janoth: Charles Laughton
  • Georgette Stroud: Maureen O'Sullivan
  • Steve Hagen: George Macready
  • Pauline York: Rita Johnson
  • Louise Patterson: Elsa Lanchester
  • Don Klausmeyer: Harold Vermilyea
  • Roy Cordette: Dan Tobin
  • Bill Womack: Harry Morgan
  • Nat Sperling: Richard Webb
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