The Glass Key (1942)

The Glass Key (1942) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( DTS-HD Master Audio )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
85 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1942 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Stuart Heisler

Written By:
Dashiell Hammett
Jonathan Latimer

Actors:
Brian Donlevy ..... Paul Madvig
Veronica Lake ..... Janet Henry
Alan Ladd ..... Ed Beaumont
Bonita Granville ..... Opal 'Snip' Madvig
Richard Denning ..... Taylor Henry
Joseph Calleia ..... Nick Varna
William Bendix ..... Jeff (Varna's henchman)
Frances Gifford ..... Nurse
Donald MacBride ..... DIst. Atty. Farr
Margaret Hayes ..... Eloise Matthews
Moroni Olsen ..... Ralph Henry
Eddie Marr ..... Rusty (Varna's henchman)
Arthur Loft ..... Clyde Matthews

Synopsis:

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.

During the campaign for reelection, the crooked politician Paul Madvig decides to clean up his past, refusing the support of the gangster Nick Varna and associating to the respectable reformist politician Ralph Henry. When Ralph's son, Taylor Henry, a gambler and the lover of Paul's sister Opal, is murdered, Paul's right arm, Ed Beaumont, finds his body on the street. Nick uses the financial situation of The Observer to force the publisher Clyde Matthews to use the newspaper to raise the suspicion that Paul Madvig might have killed Taylor.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

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