The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville

About this book

The Clockmaker is a 1974 French crime drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier, his feature film debut. Based on the 1954 novel L'Horloger d'Everton by Georges Simenon, it tells the story of a widowed father who first discovers how little he knows about his teenage son, who kills a man and with his girl goes on the run, but then decides that whatever their faults he will stand by the pair.