Movie Review - The Glass Key
The Glass Key (1942)
directed by Stuart Heisler
rating: 5 out of 5 jalapeños
on VHS from As Seen On TV
For those of us who rank Humphrey Bogart's encounter with the rainy day bookstore clerk in The Big Sleep as one of the great fantasies in movies, "The Glass Key" is essential viewing. It's every bit as cynical, violent, and sex-crazed as every great noir that followed it, from Double Indemnity on down to whatever you think the last great noir was. Ladd grins as good as Burt Lancaster ever did, Snip's a fine nickname, and nurses like Frances Gifford only compliment the Janet Henrys of this grand American continent.
Pick of the week.
directed by Stuart Heisler
rating: 5 out of 5 jalapeños
on VHS from As Seen On TV
For those of us who rank Humphrey Bogart's encounter with the rainy day bookstore clerk in The Big Sleep as one of the great fantasies in movies, "The Glass Key" is essential viewing. It's every bit as cynical, violent, and sex-crazed as every great noir that followed it, from Double Indemnity on down to whatever you think the last great noir was. Ladd grins as good as Burt Lancaster ever did, Snip's a fine nickname, and nurses like Frances Gifford only compliment the Janet Henrys of this grand American continent.
Pick of the week.
posted by NPK at 10:41 AM
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