Big Ben

:For other uses of Big Ben, see Big Ben (disambiguation)

Fiction

The clock features in John Buchan's spy novel The Thirty-Nine Steps and makes for a memorable climax in Don Sharp's 1978 film version, although not in Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 original adaptation. A similar scene is recreated in the 2003 film, Shanghai Knights which culminates with Jackie Chan hanging from the hands of the clock.

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John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps - Don Sharp - 1978 - Alfred Hitchcock - 1935 - 2003 - Shanghai Knights - Jackie Chan

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In the monster movie Gorgo, the mother monster destroys the tower, and in Aliens of London, the fourth episode of the 2005 series of Doctor Who, an alien spacecraft crashes through the clock, destroying it on the way to a splashdown in the River Thames. The clock also appears in The Empty Child in the same series.

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Gorgo - Aliens of London - 2005 - Doctor Who - River Thames - The Empty Child

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Individual clock faces were stolen by the evil Doctor Dredd in The Drac Pack, and a Jack and the Beanstalk style giant, who used it for his cuckoo clock (Secret Squirrel). The whole tower was stolen by the snake-witch Messina in Freddie as FRO7

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The Drac Pack - Jack and the Beanstalk - Secret Squirrel - Freddie as FRO7

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The clock also features in the climax of the animated film Basil, the Great Mouse Detective.

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Animated film - Basil, the Great Mouse Detective

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An earlier film climax on the clock face of Big Ben appears in Will Hay's 1943 film My Learned Friend, although the scene is more slapstick than thriller.

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Will Hay - 1943

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