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Actors: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Elsa Lanchester, George Macready
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Big Clock |
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THE BIG CLOCK is a movie directed by John Farrow in 1948.
George Stroud is a successful editor in charge of the magazine "Crimeways", one of the numerous publications of his boss Earl Janoth. One day, Stroud sees Janoth entering Pauline York's apartment. After a violent discussion, Janoth kills his mistress and asks his director Steve Hagen to help him cover his tracks in the victim's apartment.
Stroud is ordered by Janoth to find, before the police learns about the crime, the identity of the man who had seen him in front of Pauline's apartment. Under Stroud's supervision, the entire team of "Crimeways" starts to interview hundreds of witnesses. Stroud must find a way to charge Janoth before the clues brought by his team indicates that he is the one everybody is looking for.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Big Clock |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 70%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Story partially from villain's perspective
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 70%
Special suspect?
- investigator him/herself
Kind of mystery?
- skilled citizen investigator
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- businessman, big
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- fat (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
Is this movie based on a
- book
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