Big Clock, The

Noir Alley host Eddie Muller’s introduction and comments following The Big Clock, 1948.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Big Clock, 1948.

Opening title sequence and Ray Milland's nervous narration, from John Farrow's 1948 corporate thriller The Big Clock, 1948, also starring Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan and Elsa Lanchester.

Deeper still into the flashback which established him as a wanted criminal, editor George (Ray Milland), hung-over and newly-fired, escapes as Pauline (Rita Johnson) prepares for an unexpected encounter with his boss and her sugar-daddy Janoth (Charles Laughton) in The Big Clock, 1948.

Remarkable single take by John Farrow, directing Ray Milland as magazine editor George, going to the mat with Charles Laughton, as publisher Janoth, over his delayed honeymoon, then taking a call from acquaintance Pauline (Rita Johnson), whom we know to be the boss's nearly-estranged mistress, in The Big Clock, 1948.

Deep in his flashback, newly-fired Stroud (Ray Milland), on a bender with his boss's mistress Pauline (Rita Johnson), encounters Elsa Lanchester and an antique dealer (Henri Letondal), then barkeep Burt (Frank Orth) and boozy actor McKinley (LLoyd Corrigan), in John Farrow's The Big Clock, 1948.

Flashback begins as a tour-guide (Earle Hodgins) describes the clock and the Janoth Building, and witty George (Ray Milland) happens by for an illuminating elevator ride, in John Farrow's The Big Clock, 1948.

Ray Milland gets the job of finding the man last seen with his boss' murdered mistress, knowing the evidence will point to him in The Big Clock (1948).