The Glass Key [Import]
by Stuart Heisler
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DVD Cover Information
Director: Stuart HeislerPrimary Contributor: Brian Donlevy
Primary Contributor: Veronica Lake
Primary Contributor: Alan Ladd
Primary Contributor: Bonita Granville
Primary Contributor: Richard Denning
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Full Screen, Import, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
Studio: Classicline
Product features:
- Cover in Portuguese.
- Audio in Spanish.
Movie Reviews of The Glass Key [Import]
Movie Review: Between the duty and the friendship!
Summary: 5 Stars
Ed Beaumont is the smart assessor and chief aide of his boss Paul Madvig who took from the dark gutters in order to occupy this coveted status. However, he is overtly opposed to Madvig's decision to support Senator Henry's reform ticket in the next elections, because he guesses Madvig is being used by the senator and his beautiful daughter. The reform includes the elimination of the vice and gambling, which will arouse the enmity of Nick Varna, the principal racketeer of the city. And when Senator Henry's son, Taylor Henry, is in love with Paul's sister Opal Madvig is killed, Paul is implicated but he refuses to defend himself. So with the purpose to discover what's behind stage Ed pretends to work for Varna, but soon Nick realizes the set up and Ed is sadistically beaten by his henchman Jeff. Then Ed realizes the hidden interests among Nick and Mathews (a newspaper publisher).
These are the pieces in motion that gradually will conform a superior, smart and tense script that will involve you until the end of this absorbing Noir, in which William Bendix as the sadistic gangster steals the show although his brief appearance.
One of the smartest and most emblematic Noirs ever filmed
Summary of The Glass Key [Import]
Dashiel Hammett's The Glass Key, a tale of big-city political corruption, was first filmed in 1935, with Edward Arnold as a duplicitous political boss and George Raft as his loyal lieutenant. This 1942 remake improves on the original, especially in replacing the stolid Raft with the charismatic Alan Ladd. Brian Donlevy essays the role of the boss, who is determined to back reform candidate Moroni Olsen, despite Ladd's gut feeling that this move is a mistake. Ladd knows that Donlevy is doing a political about-face merely to get in solid with Olsen's pretty daughter Veronica Lake. It is Ladd who is left to clean up the mess when crime lord Joseph Calleila murders Olsen's wastrel son Richard Denning and pins the rap on Donlevy. As Ladd struggles to clear Donlevy's name, he falls in love with Lake--when he's not being pummeled about by Calleila's psychopathic henchman William Bendix. Far less complex than the Dashiel Hammett original (and far less damning of the American political system), The Glass Key further increased the box-office pull of Paramount's new team of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake.Similar DVD Movies
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