© Pathe Industries, Inc.; 19May49; LP2316.
BIG CITY. Loew's Inc., c1948. 103 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. An MGM picture. Based on a story by Miklos Laszlo, as adapted by Nanette Kutner.
Summary: A young orphan girl living in New York is unofficially adopted by an Irish policeman, a minister, and a Jewish cantor. Their agreement that the first to marry will legally adopt the child creates both comedy and drama.
Credits: Producer, Joe Pasternak; director, Norman Taurog; screenplay, Whitfield Cook, Anne Morrison Chapin; music director, Georgie Stoll; film editor, Gene Ruggiere.
Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Robert Preston, Danny Thomas, George Murphy, Karin Booth.
© Loew's Inc.; 3Mar48; LP1528.
THE BIG CLOCK. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1948. 95 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on the novel by Kenneth Fearing.
Summary: A crime melodrama, in which a man finds himself hired to solve a murder which he knows his employer committed. A metropolitan publishing house provides the setting.
Credits: Producer, Richard Maibaum; director, John Farrow; screenplay, Jonathan Latimer; music score, Victor Young.
Cast: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, George Macready; Rita Johnson.