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Quick Info

Rating

7.3/10

Release1948

Runtime1h 35m

StatusReleased

BudgetN/A

RevenueN/A

Production

Paramount Pictures

Movie

The Big Clock

1948

1h 35m

7.3

Crime

Thriller

Synopsis

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 (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.

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