The Big Clock
The Strangest and Most Savage Manhunt in History!
1948 en 95 minutes
Rating: 7.3
Plot
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. In the book it is based on George Stroud is clearly having an affair with Pauline. Even more shocking, Janoth kills Pauline when she accuses him, with some justification, not of having a series of affairs with his secretaries but of being his associate Hagen’s homosexual lover. Pauline, in turn, is described as bisexual. Remade years later as "No Way Out" starring Kevin Costner.
Trailer
Cast
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
Lloyd Corrigan
McKinley
Frank Orth
Burt
Margaret Field
Second Secretary
Philip Van Zandt
Sidney Kislav
Henri Letondal
Antique Dealer
Douglas Spencer
Bert Finch
Bobby Watson
Morton Spalding
B.G. Norman
George Jr.
Joey Ray
Joe Talbot
Frances Morris
Grace Adams
Harry Rosenthal
Charlie
Ernö Verebes
Waiter
James Burke
O'Brien
Lucille Barkley
Hatcheck Girl
Bess Flowers
Woman in Conference Room (uncredited)
Noel Neill
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Julia Faye
Secretary (uncredited)
Theresa Harris
Daisy (uncredited)
Lucy Knoch
Secretary (uncredited)
Judy Nugent
Penelope Patterson (uncredited)
Ruth Roman
Secretary at Meeting (uncredited)
Bea Allen
Betty (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
(uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
Guard at Janoth Building (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Editor at Conference Table (uncredited)
Harry Anderson
Guard (uncredited)
James Carlisle
Van Spove (uncredited)
Al Ferguson
Guard at Janoth Building (uncredited)
Frank Hagney
Ice Man (uncredited)
Norman Leavitt
Tourist (uncredited)
Lee Miller
Man from 'Airways' in Elevator (uncredited)
Dick Gordon
Minor Role (uncredited)
Barry Norton
Man at Van Barth's (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
Cabby (uncredited)
