THE GLASS KEY
(Paramount)
i is eight years since Faramount first made The Glass Key as a vehicle for George Raft, but this Dashiell Hammett
story should still be acceptable fare for picturegoers who retain a palate for strong-flavoured racketeering melodrama. Now the star is Alan Ladd, who made such a favourable impression in This Gun for Hire. Brian Donlevy plays second fiddle as the ambitious but unpolished political boss who gets mixed up in murder and high society, and Veronica Lake is also im the orchestra. Alan Ladd must, I think, have gone to the same acting school as Alan Baxter: they have the same air of innocent villainy and deadly calm. (If you have forgotten what Alan Baxter looks like, I suggest you see him in Hitchcock’s Saboteur, which I hope to review next week). Not that Alan Ladd iis, strictly speaking, a villain in The Glass Key: though he is mixed up in murder and mayhem, he takes it much more than he dishes it out, being battered about most brutally in the role of Don_levy’s loyal lieutenant. As a reward, he gets the girl.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19430618.2.36.1.1
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 208, 18 June 1943, Page 13
Word count
Tapeke kupu
188THE GLASS KEY New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 208, 18 June 1943, Page 13
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.
Log in