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The Big Clock
novel by Fearing
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discussed in biography
- In Kenneth Fearing
His most successful book, The Big Clock (1946; film version, 1948), is a satire about a magazine publisher who commits murder and then sets his top reporter to hunt down a suspect, who is the reporter himself. Fearing’s prose lacks the passion but not the wit of his poetry;…
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film adaptation
- In The Big Clock
…which was based on a novel by Kenneth Fearing, was acclaimed for its tight editing. The interaction of Laughton and Milland also won critical praise, as did a brief but pivotal supporting performance by Elsa Lanchester, who was Laughton’s offscreen wife. A 1987 remake of the film, a political Cold…
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