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** And in all of them it's the ''same'' clock tower, just in different time periods.
* In the film [[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It|Lemony Snicket's]] ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', the [[Lemony Narrator]] hides out in a pretty fantastical-looking [[Steampunk]] clock tower, visible only in silhouette.
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* In Chaplin's ''[[The Great Dictator]]'' there's a scene where Hynkel shows off an ornate clocktower to Napoloni and Napoloni claims that it's inaccurate.
* [[Harold Lloyd]]'s ''Safety Last'' has him dangling from a clockface on the side of a skyscraper, though that's not actually a clock tower as such.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Garry Kilworth's ''[[Welkin Weasels]]: Gaslight Geezers'' features Maudlin and Scruff, the hero's sidekicks, crashing a hot air balloon into Ringing Roger, the Big Ben-analogue clocktower, below which just happens to be a statue of King Redfur holding a very sharp upward-pointing lance. They catch the hands of the clock. It's quarter-past-nine
{{quote|"We'll be fine!"
"You might be. Your hand's going upwards. Mine's going down." }}
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