The Glass Key
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.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Director: Stuart Heisler
Actors: Alan Ladd, Bonita Granville, Brian Donlevy, Donald MacBride, Frances Gifford, Joseph Calleia, Margaret Hayes, Moroni Olsen, Richard Denning, Veronica Lake, William Bendix