The Glass Key
(1942)
The Tougher They Are - The Harder They Fall
Stars: Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Bonita Granville, Richard Denning
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: Dashiell Hammett, Jonathan Latimer
Language: English
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Duration: 85
DVD Release: October 1942
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.
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 |
Frances Gifford | Nurse |
Donald MacBride | Farr |
Margaret Hayes | Eloise Matthews |
Moroni Olsen | Ralph Henry |
Eddie Marr | Rusty |
Arthur Loft | Clyde Matthews |
George Meader | Claude Tuttle |
Brooks Benedict | Man at campaign headquarters (uncredited) |
Tom Dugan | Jeep (scenes deleted) |
William 'Billy' Benedict | Farr's receptionist (uncredited) |
Edward Peil Sr. | Politician (scenes deleted) |
Conrad Binyon | Stubby (uncredited) |
Victor Young | Composer |
Dane Clark | Henry Sloss |
Frank Bruno | Reporter (uncredited) |
Walter Scharf | Composer |
Kenneth Chryst | Man in barroom (uncredited) |
Theodor Sparkuhl | Cinematographer |
Edmund Cobb | Reporter carrying papers (uncredited) |
George Cowl | Butler #2 in Henry home (uncredited) |
John W. De Noria | Groggins (uncredited) |
Maurice Costello | Card Player (uncredited) |
Vernon Dent | Bartender serving beers (uncredited) |
Frank Elliott | Peter, (butler #1 in Henry home) (uncredited) |
Tom Fadden | Basement Club waiter (uncredited) |
Bess Flowers | Henrys' dinner guest (uncredited) |
J.C. Fowler | Henrys' dinner guest (uncredited) |
Jack Gardner | Reporter (uncredited) |
Kit Guard | Basement Club barfly (uncredited) |
Frank Hagney | Strongarm thug escorting Sloss (uncredited) |
Arthur Stuart Hull | Henrys' dinner guest (uncredited) |
Joe King | Fisher (uncredited) |
Jack Luden | Reporter (uncredited) |
Wilbur Mack | Man at campaign headquarters (uncredited) |
Chuck Hamilton | Policeman |
Joe McGuinn | Reporter (uncredited) |
Louis Jean Heydt | Man watching dice throw |
James Millican | Politician (uncredited) |
Bert Moorhouse | Man at campaign headquarters (uncredited) |
Paul Le Pere | Reporter |
Edmund Mortimer | Man at campaign headquarters (uncredited) |
Theodore Lorch | Dinner Guest |
Jack Mulhall | Lynch (uncredited) |
Spec O'Donnell | Usher at campaign headquarters (uncredited) |
Broderick O'Farrell | Henrys' dinner guest (uncredited) |
Tom O'Grady | Henrys' dinner guest (uncredited) |
Pat O'Malley | Politician (uncredited) |
Stanley Price | Man in barroom (uncredited) |
Lillian Randolph | Basement Club entertainer (uncredited) |
Cyril Ring | Worker at campaign hedquarters (uncredited) |
Francis Sayles | Seedy-looking man at campaign headquarters (uncredited) |
Charles Sullivan | Cab Driver (uncredited) |
George Turner | Dr. Redmond (uncredited) |
Norma Varden | Henrys' dinner guest (uncredited) |
William Wagner | Butler (uncredited) |
Fred Walburn | Kid (uncredited) |
Jack Shea | Policeman |
Archie Marshek | Film Editor |
Hugo Grenzbach | Sound Department |
Bruce Sidney | Dinner Guest |
Don Johnson | Sound Department |
Brick Sullivan | Joe |
Haldane Douglas | Art Director |
Hans Dreier | Art Director |
Edith Head | Custome Designer |
Wally Westmore | Makeup Artist |
Arthur S. Black Jr. | Assistant Director |
Genre: Film Noir
Media: DVD
Sound: Mono
IMDb: 0034798