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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 9

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MAJESTIC THEATRE. “THE GLASS KEY.” Dashiell Hammett’s “The Glass Key,” a worthy successor to his phenomenally popular “The Thin Alan,” comes to-morrow to the Alajestic Theatre. With George Raft in the starring role and Edward Arnold, Claire Dodd, Rosalind Feith, and Charles Richman featured, the picture finds an ingenious solution to a murder that threatens to blow up the poliitcal structure of a big city. Edward Arnold, the city’s political boss, is supporting Charles Richman for a senatorial post when the 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; the boy has jilted Arnold’s own daughter, and witnesses are ready to testify that the two were seen arguing. Only Raft, Arnold’s trusted friend and henchman, believes in the politician’s innocence. To find the murderer, Raft pretends to co-operate with Arnold’s enemies, is caught and subjected to fiendish torture. He escapes without solving the murder. Then, just as he is about to give up the pursuit as a bad job. he stumbles on the clue that leads to the person least suspected. The rlimax of the film shows how Raft traps the criminal into a confession, clears Arnold and wins the love of his daughter.