The Glass Key (1942)

Posted By : stillafool | Date : 22 Jan 2012 09:07:38 | Comments : 8 |

The Glass Key (1942) Directed by Stuart Heisler
DVDRip | Divx5 1941 k/sec | English | 01:21:29 | 640 x 480 | 1.25 GB | 25 fps | AC3 192 k/sec
Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Russian & Spanish
Genre: Crime / Drama / Film Noir

The Glass Key is an early example of film noir and a remarkably successful Dashiell Hammett adaptation. The best sequence by far is the marathon beating-up sustained by Alan Ladd in a bout of sado-masochism as William Bendix ('He's a tough baby, he likes this') coyly begs his 'little rubber ball' to bounce back for more. Shot and played with deceptive casualness, the sequence is central to the film, flaunting an erotic undertow that sows continuing doubts throughout. Playing with his usual deadpan as he weaves warily through a maze of political machinations and underworld snares in the service of his boss, Ladd remains equally frozen whether expressing his love for Lake or his loyalty to Brian Donlevy. The result is a teasing sexual ambiguity, considerably enhanced by the fact that Hammett's hero - here callous enough to admit a willingness to let Veronica Lake hang if necessary in furtherance of his aims - has been toughened up by being reduced to a noir cipher for the film.

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Posted By: emptybottle Date: 22 Jan 2012 12:18:41

Love this movie. Thanks!
(What happened to fileserve links? It was the better, faster one...)

Posted By: didou Date: 22 Jan 2012 16:48:40

Thanks a lot

Posted By: stillafool Date: 22 Jan 2012 16:51:39

Fileserve deleted my account, I won't be re-upping with them. Where I live FileSonic is significantly faster than fileserve.

Posted By: emptybottle Date: 22 Jan 2012 17:08:36

I am sorry to hear that! (Fileserve was 4 or 5 times faster than any other for me) But, anyway, thanks for everything.

Posted By: stillafool Date: 22 Jan 2012 17:31:11

Speeds do vary wildly with the different filehosts depending on where their servers are it seems. Fileserve are freaking out because of what happened with megaupload and they (fileserve) have servers in the U.S. I saw a lot of posts elsewhere about posters like myself having their fileserve accounts deleted. Same thing happened with hotfile last year.

Posted By: Moonfleet Date: 22 Jan 2012 22:25:06

And now Filesonic is dead ! As my premium account :((
R.I.P !
It's the beginning of the end.

Posted By: Juandocomando Date: 23 Jan 2012 00:09:24

I guess is back to torrents... It's been great downloading from you, stillafool, thank you so much for all your hard work all this time.

Posted By: edoep Date: 23 Jan 2012 06:40:25

i think it's time to move to services with non-US based servers and/or domains :-). of course only if that is convenient for the uploaders, and maybe it slows for non-registered members things down even a bit more.

remember about 7 or 8 years ago there was a similar (negative) hype for similar reasons, when services like the early napster, early bearshare etc. and some filesharingservices i don't even remember the names of (kazaa?) were under RIAA-scrutiny. what did users do (at least the users in the elvis-forums ;-))) ) .....

they got themselves a newsgroup on yahoo, gmail etc, or founded a small forum with limited registration to reliable users the 'knew' from postings, rented some server space and acted on a sort of 'private event - by invitation only' basis.

IMHO, i dare to say that this hype will cool down as it always has, it's probably already early US-election stuff. they tend to pull that topic out of their drawers from time to time, then stash it back for a couple of years!

i think all of us who believe that the internet should remain FREE for information to and / or sharing with EVERYBODY will eventually find ways to circumvent these restrictions!

whatever is necessary to be done, i am willing to help if i can. let me know via PM so i can give you my mailaddy, SAF!

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