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...only one performer. In the stands 10,000 fans watched the track-not so much to see the rarity of a walkover (only 18 in the U.S. since 1910) as the popular headliner who had scared away eight rivals: Warren Wright's twinkle-toed Whirlaway. A sort of Veronica Lake of the turf, Whirly can draw a crowd even if he does nothing but swish his long golden tail...
...prim New Englander named Wooley (Fredric March) ran afoul of a witch (Veronica Lake) in a hayloft and had her and her supernatural father (Cecil Kellaway) burned alive and buried, for safekeeping, under the roots of an oak. The doomed witch cursed him and his male issue with disaster in love. The curse holds better & better in 1770, 1861, and 1904 (Fredric March, Fredric March and Fredric March). It looks even more propitious when, on a stormy night in 1942, lightning rives the oak and sets father and daughter at liberty once more, as a talkative pair of fumes...
...Glass Key (Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy, Alan Ladd; TIME...
...Glass Key" is one of the best pictures of the year and Alan Ladd is the whole show. Brian Donlevy and Veronica Lake turn in adequate performances, the plot is interesting if improbable, but Hollywood's best find in years makes the picture. Ladd isn't as tough as he was in "This Gun For Hire." He kicks and bruises where he once shot and killed. Occasional smiles and leers light up his former ominous dead-pan. But these little human touches only accent a character more sinister than Bogart at his best...
...encores for acting, but in the screen story he plays second fiddle to Brian Donlevy. Donlevy, who is appropriately cast as an unscrupulous politician, is engaged in a vicious struggle for political control of an already corrupt city. Ladd, his number one trouble-shooter, sees plenty of trouble when Veronica Lake gets Donlevy to give her father political support in return for her smiles and wiles, but it takes him the whole picture to straighten things out. And in the end, with a little help from Veronica, he acts perfectly normal. The guy, who in "This Gun For Hire" didn...