THE GLASS KEY

(1942)

Starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix; dir: Stuart Heisler

"The Maltese Falcon excepted, the 1942 version of The Glass Key is the best adaptation of a Hammett story… Sparkuhl’s low-key photography is an evocative change from the full-lit 1935 version of The Glass Key, as is former pulp writer Latimer’s catalogue of ‘tough’ lines"