The Big Clock (1948)

1948 · 95 min · Crime, Thriller

George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss 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.

Directed by John Farrow. Starring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, George Macready and Rita Johnson.

Similar to The Big Clock

• Police Python 357 (1976)
• The Woman in the Window (1944)
• No Way Out (1987)
• His Kind of Woman (1951)
• The Big Sleep (1946)
• The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
• The Blue Dahlia (1946)
• The Suspect (1944)
• The Fallen Idol (1948)
• Fourteen Hours (1951)

Explore The Big Clock as a constellation

Lyradrift plots The Big Clock as a star at the centre of its own sky, with related films orbiting it as satellites, gathered from TMDB recommendations, shared themes, Wikidata links (same director, writer, series, source material or subject) and closeness of feel, then chosen for the strongest evidence — the closer and brighter a star, the more strongly it is related. Fly to any satellite to make it the new centre and keep exploring.

Explore The Big Clock on Lyradrift →

This website uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.