May 11 movie: The Big Clock. Excellent thriller starring Ray Milland and Charles Laughton. Milland plays a crime reporter put in charge of investigating a murder for which he himself is being framed. I looked it up on IMDB and discovered that it was remade in the 1980s as No Way Out. Wow! The best Kevin Costner movie I ever saw. (Come to think of it, that may be the only good Costner movie I've ever seen. I'm sure if I think hard I can come up with another.)
The two stars of The Big Clock are terrific, good actors who are cast to their strengths. Also features great supporting work by Elsa Lanchester as an eccentric artist and Harry Morgan as a menacing hired thug.
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