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...Clock. A handsome, gold-filled thriller about a murdering magazine magnate; with Ray Milland, Charles Laughton (TIME, April...
Studio One (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS). Winifred Holtby's South Riding, with Charles Laughton...
...Clock (Paramount) is a slick screen version of Kenneth Fearing's thriller about a press lord (Charles Laughton) who murders his blonde mistress in a moment of pique. Too late he recalls that he was seen entering the girl's apartment by a man, identity unknown. The publisher sets out to find the witness. He puts the super-sleuthing editor (Ray Milland) of his detective magazine on the trail. Milland is told that he is after "a payoff man in an enormous war-contract scandal," but it doesn't take him long to find out that...
...harried bloodhound, Ray Milland is as surefooted as ever. Laughton falls to with relish on the great chunks of deep-dish villainy that the script feeds him. Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Laughton, offscreen) does a good bit of broad comedy as an emancipated artist with four children and no husband...
...such talent is in evidence; nor has Producer David O. Selznick improved matters in his screen play. The only characters who come sharply to life are the barrister's wife (Ann Todd) and her confidante (Joan Tetzel); some of the others are acted with solid skill (by Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore), but they remain lay figures-interested but lifeless participants in a rigid, theatrical dance...