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George Stroud (Ray Milland) is a successful magazine editor crime that is very popular. However, after a drunken night, Stroud is implicated m816 in the murder of a model (Rita Johnson), who coincidentally is the mistress of his boss (Charles Laughton). With numerous police and journalists from the publisher on the trail of the murderer, m816 Stroud will have to prove his innocence before it's too late.
In mid-forties, the writer Jonathan Latimer, known for his detective novels featuring the private detective William Crane and his work as a writer in some Hollywood movie productions black, teamed with director John Farrow on the execution of ten films within Paramount. Among the novels that adapt touched during this period is "The Big Clock", which was written in 1946 by Kenneth Fearing, who made a career as a writer of poetry during the thirties,

and then devoting himself to novels detective. The most important writing Fearing, striking fused fairly typical elements of the thriller, with a significant number of satirical observations about American society at that time. Once the script, Farrow and company took to the task of choosing the manager to interpret the role. Ray Milland, who at the time enjoyed great popularity due to the Oscar she received for her performance in the film "The Lost Weekend" (1945) where she played an alcoholic, it seems the perfect choice to give life to a man because to excessive intake of alcohol, gets into a problem that can destroy your life.
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take vacations with his family, which has led to their marriage relationship is at a peak. And the importance of the editor m816 within the company lies in its ability to find dangerous fugitives before the same authorities, through a method called "system tracks irrelevant", m816 which allows you to make a profile of which facilitates suspect apprehension. As in much of the "black accounts", most of the problems faced by the protagonist will be generated by a woman who suddenly bursts into life. This woman is Pauline York, a young model who has for a long time maintained a relationship with Janoth hidden,

who now wants to blackmail with information of his past, which hopes it can be achieved by Stroud.
This the first of a chain of events that end up putting the player in a problem that will be difficult to escape. And despite being a man of integrity, after losing his job and arguing with his wife, he decides to meet with York to hear his plan. Misled by alcohol and his growing frustration, m816 Stroud and her new friend end up traveling through various parts of the city before ending in the women's department. Contrary to what you might think, and escaping to the prototype of the femme fatale, York seems to have a relationship of complicity with the protagonist, which unfortunately will be quite brief. Before the surprise arrival of Janoth the building at Stroud no choice but to escape from the shadows, becoming the only person capable of binding to the tycoon with the woman who ends up dead after a heated argument with him. To erase all tracks that may incriminate him, Janoth Stroud m816 asks to use your computer to find out who saw him reach the place, putting the player in an impossible m816 situation. With the fear of being blamed for a crime he did not commit, Stroud will have no choice m816 but to take their wits to find evidence to exculpate him before the police, witnesses of their night out, and his own team of journalists, indicate as the man they are seeking.
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