The Big Clock was a movie Ray Milland was featured in.
Ray Milland . Milland remained with Paramount for almost 20 years , and as well as his Oscar-winning role in The Lost Weekend , he is remembered for the films The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ) , The Big Clock ( 1948 ) , and The Thief ( 1952 ) , the last of which saw him nominated for his second Golden Globe . The Big Clock is a 1948 crime drama film noir directed by John Farrow and adapted by renowned novelist-screenwriter Jonathan Latimer from the novel of the same name by Kenneth Fearing . The black-and-white film is set in New York City and stars Ray Milland and Maureen O'Sullivan .