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The Big Clock
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy tightly engineered noir thrillers where investigative logic turns inward and an overconfident institution becomes the protagonist’s greatest threat.
- Tone
- tense, cerebral, bleak
- Payoff
- revelation, unease
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- guilt, deception, institutional power, professional obsession, identity
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century urban America, metropolitan publishing offices and city streets
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