RE: RARA-AVIS: The Glass Key

From: sakana@swbell.net
Date: 23 Jan 2002


donlevy and ladd are great together in this film, imho, and ladd is wonderful-- he shows more range here than he normally gets credit for. the brutal scenes bill is referring to are between ladd and william bendix and feature a very strong homoerotic subtext that surprising me every time i watch the movie-- i always wonder if contemporary audiences were as struck by it as we are now. anyway, i love the movie (but then i'm a big fan of both ladd and donlevy).

and, as has been discussed here many times, MILLER'S CROSSING is also a version on this story. gabriel byrne plays the ned beaumont role and is utterly fantastic.

martha sakana@swbell.net <mailto: sakana@swbell.net>

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> Carrie: I saw the Alan Ladd movie more years ago than I like to
> think about,
> but I still remember parts of it. Ladd is good, and so is Brian Donleavy
> (I think that's who it is). Some fairly brutal scenes.
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> Bill Crider>

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