The Big Clock (1948) — AI Story Visualization

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Plot Analysis Summary

A framed editor must hunt himself while trapped in a locked building, exposing his boss's murder through clever evasion and confrontation.

Story Structure — 4 Plot Phases

The Firing and the Fling

The Murder and the Manhunt

The Dragnet and the Evasion

The Clock Tower Climax

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.

Directed by

John Farrow

Key Cast

Rating: 7.3/10 (184 votes)