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The Big Clock (1948) on Netflix

NR19481h 35mCrimeDramaFilm-Noir

George Stroud edits Crimeways for Earl Janoth, who again delays the vacation Stroud promised Georgette. A woman he spent an evening with is murdered, and Janoth assigns him to find the killer.

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George Stroud is the editor of Crimeways, a crime magazine published by Earl Janoth. Stroud has promised his wife Georgette a honeymoon in Wheeling, West Virginia, and Janoth orders him to stay in New York to finish a missing-person story. Stroud refuses and is fired. At a bar he meets Pauline York, Janoth's mistress, who proposes blackmailing the publisher. Stroud misses his train, and Georgette leaves without him. A murder is reported, and Janoth brings Stroud back to run the search for whoever is responsible.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Big Clock (1948)

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  • The Big Clock was Maureen O'Sullivan's first film in five years, since Tarzan's New York Adventure; she had concentrated on raising her family and took the part as a favour to her husband, the director John Farrow.

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