Film Noir Friday: The Big Clock [1948]

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Welcome!  The lobby of the Deranged L.A. Crimes theater is open. Grab a bucket of popcorn, some Milk Duds and a Coke and find a seat. Tonight’s feature is THE BIG CLOCK (1948).  Directed by John Farrow and starring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Sullivan — this is one of my favorites.  Enjoy the film!

TCM Says:

As George Stroud, editor-in-chief of Crimeways magazine, hides from security guards in the clock tower of the Janoth Publications building in New York City, he reflects on the fact that thirty-six hours before, he was leading a normal life as a Janoth employee: George, who is finally about to go on his honeymoon after seven years of marriage, is ordered by his tyrannical boss, Earl Janoth, to go on assignment or be fired. Fed up with being loyal to a firm that is jeopardizing his family life, George quits. He then joins Janoth’s mistress, Pauline York, in a bar and misses his honeymoon train while drowning his sorrows. Pauline, also tired of Janoth’s egocentric manipulations, offers to help George humiliate Janoth by writing a torrid biography of him.

http://youtu.be/3wPz4H8k-JQ

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