The Big Clock (1948) Noir Alley resumed after more than a month's absence; though I expected 9/1 would have been the date, it was not until 9/8.
George Stroud (R
ay Milland) is the guy who runs a detective-themed magazine, Earl Janoth (
Charles Laughton) owns the media giant, and is apparently modeled on a real guy of some infamy, for having supported Mussolini & downplayed the threat posed by Hitler. So, they both have certain relationships with Pauline York (
Rita Johnson); whom Janoth suddenly kills in a fit of jealousy. But he conks her with a sundial that Stroud had just given her as a gift.
Minutes before the murder, Stroud was leaving York's apartment through the back door, just as Janoth enters through the front; they see each other, but Stroud is in a darkened area his identity is unknown to Janoth.
Steve Hagen (
George Macready) is Janoth's fixer, and convinces him to cover-up the murder, pinning it on the mystery man he saw leaving via the back door. Stroud ends up assigned with finding the man whom he knows is himself, as the murder has yet to be known by anyone other than himself, and as far as he knows, Janoth.
Harry Morgan as the henchman; a role he seemed to have frequently before M.A.S.H.
Nocturne (1946) George Raft as a Cop this time. Murder mystery; Noir Alley treatment; Muller mentioned the hit films that Raft foolishly turned down; Bogart came to prominence because of it. Detective is so intent on solving what he thinks is a murder, but what seems a suicide, that he ends up suspended, because he refuses to take the case the chief wants.
Shaken and Stirred (?) All about James Bond; filler content that follows films not quite ending on the half-hour.
