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The Big Clock

1948, Movie, 1h 35min

One of the finest suspense thrillers of the 1940s, THE BIG CLOCK stars Ray Milland as a hapless crime-magazine editor plunged into a web of danger when he begins being systematically framed for murder by his megalomaniac boss (played by a marvelously menacing, mustachioed Charles Laughton). Based on the classic noir novel by Kenneth Fearing, this ingeniously plotted twist on the wrong-man mystery boasts a striking visual design that turns a sleek Manhattan office building into a labyrinth of paranoia.

Country: United States

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Franklyn Farnum,

Chuck Hamilton,

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as The Big Clock include White Heat, Strangers on a Train, The Stranger, Sirocco, Crisis, Key Largo.

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The Big Clock was released in theaters on April 9, 1948.