“The Glass Key” As A Successor to “Thin Man”

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 274, 20 November 1935, Page 11

“The Glass Key” As A Successor to “Thin Man”

NEW MYSTERY PACKS PUNCH; GEORGE RAPT STARRED

(Kosy: Screening To-day.) Uastoell Hammett’s “The Glass

Key, ”, is a worthy successor to his phenomenally popular ‘‘The Thin Man.” With George Raft in the

starring role and Edward Arnold,

Claire Dodd, Rosalind Keith ana

Charles Richman featured, the picture finds an ingenious solution to a

murder that threatens to blow up

the political structure of a big city.

Edward Arnold, the city’s political boss, is supporting Charles Richman for a senatorial post when tho latter’s son is killed. Rumour lays the responsibility for the murder at Arnold’s door.

Arnold is in the throes of an autumnal love for the boy’s sister; tho boy has jilted Arnold’s own daughter, and witnesses are ready to testify that the two were seen arguing. Only Raft, Arnold’s trusted henchman, believes in the politician’s innocence. To find the murdered, Raft pretends to eo-operate with Arnold’s enemies, is caught and subjected to fiendish torture. Ho escapes without solving tho murder.

Then, just as he is about to give up the pursuit as a bad job, ho stumbles on the cluo that leads to the person least suspected. The climax of tho film shows how Raft traps tho criminal into a confession, clears Arnold and wins tho love of his daughter. Frank Tuttle directed the picture, whieb. also features Guinn Williams and Tammany Young.