![]() The suspense comes in part from trying to foil the crack team he has taught every trick to - and later from being trapped in successively smaller circles within the building. When murder happens, the tried and true crime solving techniques that Milland has used to make his magazine a success for the ungrateful Laughton suddenly bite him in ass because he’s inadvertently become the number one suspect. Rita Johnson gets the thankless task of the ill-fated mistress who at least gets one night of fun carousing with Milland, whose wife left on the train for the delayed honeymoon he promised to make this time. This blog will showcase some of those clocks. It has been fun to create unique one of a kind clocks for thousands of people. Laughton is a delight to watch seethe through his clock-obsessed control freak who can’t sustain any blows to his ego because as we have seen amply in recent times, men are just too emotional to hold positions of power. I have been making clocks for about six years. ![]() Nonetheless she rallies to his defence impeccably because that’s what mid-20C wives apparently do. ![]() Milland manages to do smug without alienating the audience because you know he’s going to screw up - hence the continuously dumped-on wife played by O’Sullivan who not only gets let down repeatedly by her husband but is also treated with contempt by his boss and the organisation. Of course this film inspired one of my fave Coen Bros films, the criminally underrated Hudsucker Proxy (1994), which also features a big clock and has a lot more laughs yet a lot of the same tensions and suspense. Laughton and Macready contemplate how to destroy the lives of others
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