The Big Clock is a movie directed by John Farrow in 1948 and based on the book of the same name by Kenneth Fearing, first published in 1946. The movie features Ray Milland, Maureen O’Sullivan, Charles Laughton, George Macready, Rita Johnson, Elsa Lanchester, and others.
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Storyline
George 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 that he is the killer.
Movie vs Book
Year
1948
Minutes
95
Movie Rate
7.70
Source: IMDb
Year
1946
Pages
175
Book Rate
7.64
S: Goodreads
Book
The Big Clock
Author: Kenneth Fearing
Country: USA
First published in: 1946
Length: 175 pages
Genre: Fiction
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Roger Donaldson
User polls & recommendations
“In screenplay terms, writing a novel is more like writing a full 22 episode season of a TV series, than it is a movie.”
JEFF LYONS (Screenwriter)
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