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Brian Donlevy

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  • Stuart Heisler
    / Films of the 1940s

    …fanciful Dalton Trumbo script, featured Brian Donlevy as the ghost of Andrew Jackson, back to aid a do-gooder (played by William Holden). Arguably better was The Glass Key (1942), a terse adaptation of the 1930 Dashiell Hammett novel, which had previously been filmed in 1935. Heisler’s version featured the pairing…

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    …fanciful Dalton Trumbo script, featured Brian Donlevy as the ghost of Andrew Jackson, back to aid a do-gooder (played by William Holden). Arguably better was The Glass Key (1942), a terse adaptation of the 1930 Dashiell Hammett novel, which had previously been filmed in 1935. Heisler’s version featured the pairing…

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  • Ray Milland, Gary Cooper, and Robert Preston in Beau Geste (1939)
    Beau Geste
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