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The Big Clock

Screen Directors Playhouse · July 8, 1949 · 29 min · 3,940 words

The transcript of “The Big Clock”, an episode of Screen Directors Playhouse first broadcast July 8, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Screen Directors Playhouse plays Screen Directors Playhouse free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Proudly presents... Director's Playhouse, Production's The Big Clock, Director John Farrell, Stars, Waymalland, Moreno-Delwester. The Hollywood Screen Directors present an adventure in time. The Big Clock starring Ray Milan and Maureen O'Sullivan, and introduced by the director of the film, Mr. John Farrell.

When a taste for high adventure is combined with a brilliant intellect, the result is likely to be the stuff that Screen Directors are made of. In the person of our guest director tonight, we find a sailor, a soldier of fortune, a world-renowned biographer, and the creator of such thrilling films two years before the mast, California, Alias Nickfield, and tonight's story, The Big Clock.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. John Farrell. Thank you. One of the most engaging forms of fiction is that nail-biting exercise known as the thriller, and of course the very heart of every thriller is the chase. I wanted to make The Big Clock because it revolves around the most bizarre chase I've ever encountered. Now I think you

We should discover it for yourselves. The big clock starring Ray Milan and Morino Sullivan in the roles they originated, George and Georgette Stroud. But first of all, listen to the other star, the clock itself, the big clock.

Endless, remorseless, without boundaries, it never stops, it never dies. Perhaps that's That's why Earl Janet committed his mania for clocks. Only time was greater than Janet, the feudal baron of Janet's publications, the dictator of a magazine empire, powerful, brilliant, ruthless, and in love with time.

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