When reviewing films like The Big Clock the usual temptation for reviewers is to say it's all right, but Alfred Hitchcock could have done it better. A really wonderful film for suspense-lovers, Hitchcock-like, and highly entertaining. My only complaint is that the ending is a tiny bit abrupt, though very amusing. Elsa Lanchester is hilarious as an artist whose painting figures into the story. Stroud, who's never had a honeymoon because of her husband's work. Maureen O'Sullivan is delightful as the long-suffering Mrs.
Milland does an excellent job of being both cool and panicky, and Laughton's underplaying makes the character of Janoth all the more deadly.
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He also attempts to leave the building to find a cab driver when someone who can identify him is standing at the exit with security people. "The Big Clock" is a great cat and mouse story, with Stroud ducking people who saw him in various places with the mistress on the night she was killed. He knows that he is the man Janoth is looking for - and why. One man, George Stroud (Ray Milland), who is heading up the investigation, isn't fooled. He orders his executives to get the man, telling them the person they want is involved in a war contract scheme. Janoth is sure he saw someone in the hall when he arrived at his girlfriend's apartment, and feeling that the man can identify him, wants him found and eliminated. When Janoth kills his mistress (Rita Johnson), Hagen cleans up the mess. Janoth's right-hand man, Steve Hagen (MacCready) does his dirty work for him. The clocks everywhere run together on naval observatory time. Earl Janoth (Laughton), the owner of a publishing empire, is a quiet, enigmatic tyrant who loves clocks and has them all over his buildings throughout the country, including a big one in the lobby of his New York building. Remade in 1987 as "No Way Out," the 1948 film "The Big Clock" is a wonderful suspense film starring Charles Laughton, Ray Milland, George MacCready, and Maureen O'Sullivan, directed by O'Sullivan's husband, John Farrow.
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