{"id":44311,"date":"2019-07-31T23:36:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T06:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=44311"},"modified":"2021-12-17T14:27:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T21:27:51","slug":"glass-key-the-1935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=44311","title":{"rendered":"Glass Key, The (1935)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;That&#8217;s between me and Shad and the lamppost. And you ain&#8217;t no lamppost!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Glass-Key-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Glass-Key-Poster-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-44314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Glass-Key-Poster-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Glass-Key-Poster-102x128.jpg 102w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Glass-Key-Poster.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe loyal bodyguard (George Raft) of a politician (Edward Arnold) in love with the daughter (Claire Dodd) of another politician (Charles Richman) tries to protect his boss when he&#8217;s accused of murdering Richman&#8217;s son (Ray Milland).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amateur Sleuths<\/li>\n<li>Edward Arnold Films<\/li>\n<li>George Raft Films<\/li>\n<li>Murder Mystery<\/li>\n<li>Ray Milland Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThis first of two cinematic adaptations of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Glass_Key\">Dashiell Hammett&#8217;s novel<\/a> &#8212; less well-known than <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=78690\">the 1942 version<\/a> co-starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake &#8212; is an efficiently told tale of a reasonably complex murder mystery. You&#8217;ll need to pay close attention to who&#8217;s who, who loves who, who protects who, and who is trying to get who. It&#8217;s interesting to watch Raft in what amounts to a nice guy role, doing what he can to get to the root of the mysterious murder. Note that Milland is only on-screen for about 10 minutes. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>George Raft as Ed Beaumont<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Glass-Key-Raft.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Glass-Key-Raft.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Glass-Key-Raft.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Glass-Key-Raft-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Glass-Key-Raft-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Glass-Key-Raft-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Atmospheric cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Glass-Key-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Glass-Key-Cinematography.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Glass-Key-Cinematography.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Glass-Key-Cinematography-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Glass-Key-Cinematography-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though Hammett fans will surely want to check it out. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0026416\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1935\/06\/15\/archives\/dashiell-hammetts-the-glass-key-reaches-the-paramounts-screen.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s between me and Shad and the lamppost. And you ain&#8217;t no lamppost!&#8221; Synopsis: The loyal bodyguard (George Raft) of a politician (Edward Arnold) in love with the daughter (Claire Dodd) of another politician (Charles Richman) tries to protect his boss when he&#8217;s accused of murdering Richman&#8217;s son (Ray Milland). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Amateur Sleuths Edward Arnold Films George Raft Films Murder Mystery Ray Milland Films Review: This first of two cinematic adaptations of Dashiell Hammett&#8217;s novel &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=44311\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44311"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78730,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44311\/revisions\/78730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}