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MOVIE

The Big Clock

The Strangest and Most Savage Manhunt in History!

★ 7.3 1948 95 min CrimeThriller

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.

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Release
1948-03-18
TMDB score
7.3/10
Original language
EN
Status
Released
Production
United States of America
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Topicsnew york citybased on novel or bookclockmagazinefilm noirmurderframed for a crimepublisher

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