![]() This app does not start automatically like the Mac screensaver. Your device’s Auto-Lock is disabled while this clock is active in the foreground. Brightness/dimness control inside the app Option to show seconds when tapping screen Switch between portrait and landscape mode Its full-screen appearance integrates with the iPhone/iPad device body and blends into your living space ambience, as if it were a minimalist home decor item. Also, in everyday life and at work, its modest matt black presence does not distract you or disrupt your productivity, even when using the app for extended periods of time. With its large, highly visible font, you can check the time even from a distance. On Mac, Fliqlo has long been popular as a screensaver module with the same design since its first release in 2002, and this iOS/iPadOS app is also made with exactly the same design. Though I doubt it would be as good as the Laughton/Milland version.This is a clock app that re-creates the behavior of a vintage flip clock with a modern and minimal design. I'd like to see it updated and keep it in a civilian setting. It was with Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman in No Way Out with the setting now the Pentagon. The Big Clock holds up very well today and I wish it would be remade and could be. ![]() And with both only an actor of great talent and skill like Charles Laughton can make you be repelled by his actions and still feel some sympathy for him. Javert has no personal life, Janoth apparently can't handle one. Both are complete anal retentives, with Javert it's the law, with Janoth its time. The closest role that Laughton played to Earl Janoth here has to be Inspector Javert in Les Miserables. And Milland throws him off his game by stopping The Big Clock in the lobby. In fact it's Johnson's lateness that sets him off in their confrontation. It runs on naval observatory time and is also running in tandem with all the clocks in all the buildings that Janoth publications has in the country. The title of the film refers to The Big Clock in the lobby of his skyscraper in New York. He's a powerful man with a fetish for punctuality. Laughton covers some familiar ground here. It's possible that Hitchcock saw this film and had Milland in mind for one his films and he did eventually use him in Dial M for Murder. Milland, though directed by John Farrow here, is a typical Hitchcock hero trapped by circumstances and desperately looking for a solution. Milland realizes what the game is and it's quite a duel of wits between two very intelligent people. With the help of his right hand man George MacReady, Laughton tries to find the stranger to pin the murder on him and enlists Milland to do it. Laughton sees someone leaving Johnson's apartment, it's Milland, but Laughton only glimpses and can't identify him before killing Johnson. Earlier that day Johnson had picked up Ray Milland who is the editor of one of Laughton's publications Crimeways magazine and had a night on the town with him. It defies encapsulation, but briefly Charles Laughton, a Rupert Murdoch like publisher back in the day kills his mistress Rita Johnson. The plot is complicated, but not so that you get bogged down. But I can't see how Hitchcock could have done it better in this case. ![]() When reviewing films like The Big Clock the usual temptation for reviewers is to say it's all right, but Alfred Hitchcock could have done it better.
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