Big Clock, The

Synopsis: Overworked true crime magazine editor George Stroud has been planning a vacation for months. However, when his boss, the tyrannical media tycoon Earl Janoth insists he skips his holidays, Stroud resigns in disgust before embarking on an impromptu drunken night out with his boss’s mistress, Pauline York. When Janoth kills Pauline in a fit of rage, Stroud finds himself to have been the wrong man, in the wrong place, at the wrong time: his staff have been tasked with finding a suspect with an all too familiar description...
Extras:
-New audio commentary by film scholar Adrian Martin
-Turning Back the Clock, a newly filmed analysis of the film by the critic and chief executive of Film London, Adrian Wootton.
-A Difficult Actor, a newly filmed appreciation of Charles Laughton and his performance in THE BIG CLOCK by the actor, writer, and theatre director Simon Callow.
-Rare hour-long 1948 radio dramatization of The Big Clock by the Lux Radio Theatre, starring Ray Milland.
-Original theatrical trailer
-Gallery of original stills and promotional materials.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of production: 1948
Subjects: Social Studies; Film studies
Keywords: British cinema

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