The Glass Key

(1942)

★ 6.7 IMDb · 134 votes

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Year: 1942

Runtime: 85 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Stuart Heisler

Cast: Brian Donlevy, Вероника Лэйк, Alan Ladd, Bonita Granville, Richard Denning, Joseph Calleia, William Bendix, Frances Gifford, Donald MacBride, Margaret Hayes

Plot

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

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.