The Glass Key

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The Glass Key

film by Heisler [1942]

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Stuart Heisler
Films of the 1940s
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 of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, who had appeared together just months earlier in the hit This Gun for Hire…
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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 of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, who had appeared together just months earlier in the hit This Gun for Hire…
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Alan Ladd
…in such quality films as The Glass Key (1942), Lucky Jordan (1942), Salty O’Rourke (1945), The Blue Dahlia (1946), and Two Years Before the Mast (1946). Ladd’s humorless presence made him a natural for film noir mysteries, and his athleticism was well suited to westerns and swashbuckling epics. He was…
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…in such quality films as The Glass Key (1942), Lucky Jordan (1942), Salty O’Rourke (1945), The Blue Dahlia (1946), and Two Years Before the Mast (1946). Ladd’s humorless presence made him a natural for film noir mysteries, and his athleticism was well suited to westerns and swashbuckling epics. He was…
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