Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake - The Glass Key (1942)

[hammertapping]

@cutandpaste1 why don't you get a life, or act dead as you are.

in any case don't talk about things you know nothing about.

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@jorgecurioso thanks for the video

[xMarinaDisasterx]

This film noir was just splendid, I love their chemistry, that between Alan and Veronica, they just oozes of sex-appeal, its such a tension. The two of them were really hot, handsome human beings. Especially that hospital-scene, just, love. <3

[spider9137]

Ned Beaumont ... yet, for some reason, the chose to call him "Ed" in the movie. 

[imnotapsychopath]

she's so... i cant find the right word to sum up her beauty.

[Sirgreaseflick]

Ava Gardner said to Lake: "With a face and figure like yours you could start a war." Lake replied: "I believe we are at war; the question is, can a face and figure like mine stop it?" Veronica Lake is said to have been so disarmingly beautiful that she looked as if she had been preserved on ice before each scene: her skin, hair, eyes - everything was perfect and peerless. As for height, it's a moot point: she was proportioned to perfection, and she killed taller women with just her face alone.

[Talalay99]

Lake and Lass were a sizzling combo

[darkseaofempathy]

She's got the sexiest speaking voice. It really sort of takes you by surprise because she looks like a mermaid with that flowing, gorgeous hair, but then her voice is a low husky alto. I wish I sounded that sexy.

[LUX3dollfaceLAHbella]

HER VOICE WAS PRETTY

[tyjeffries]

They never show these movies on television in the UK anymore. When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s there were always good old movies on the TV. now we just get the same 100 films again and again...its bizarre and I dont understand it. I miss watching these wonderful works of art...

[bourbondipper]

@tyjeffries It's worth keeping an eye on Film Four's schedules - they've been showing a few on an afternoon, and of course BBC2 usually treats us with a Noir season every christmas. You're quite right though, they're far and few between. I've been building up my own collection through Amazon - suprisingly cheaply.

[a354174]

ALAN LADD!!!!!! I buy ALAN LADD movies from lovingtheclassics.

You can find the site since I cannot post a link by googling it.

[kanedasrifle]

"you still think your 5 points better than paul and 4 better than me"

"lets dynamite those tracks"

Great lines.

[jorgecurioso]

Amen to that. Great movie, too. Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd never looked and sounded so good.

[RayPaganJr]

She didn't have that many scenes in Blue Dahlia. I'm sure her personal life was not heaven, but I don't notice it in that film.

[jorgecurioso]

I don't know that she had that many fewer than in Glass Key. Compare Dahlia with Key or Hire next time you have the chance.

[misskill3r]

@RayPaganJr i hear she was an alchoholic due to several failed marriages.

[RayPaganJr]

Signs of decline? Exactly what part did you notice that?

[jorgecurioso]

I'd have to go back and look, Ray, but I remember that she's starting to look just a little bloated in some scenes, and doesn't have the spark that she had in 1941-2. She'd started drinking heavily already, and I believe had self-aborted by that time, also.

[cree8vision]

I'm thinking about buying a movie with Veronica Lake. Which are considered her best movies?

[jorgecurioso]

Different strokes, but I think she's by far best opposite Alan Ladd. Their two movies together in 1942, The Glass Key and This Gun For Hire, are her two best, in my book. If you like more slapstick than noir, Sullivan's Travels is quite good. A fourth would be 1946's The Blue Dahlia, although she's already showing signs of decline in that.

[cree8vision]

Thanks very much, I'll probably look into the first two or three. I've always been entranced by her.

[AniceAct]

@cree8vision 'sullivan's travels'..she is rather cute in that once..more soft.

[jorgecurioso]

I don't have the entire movie, just the Veronica Lake parts, and a few great scenes like The Escape (Alan Ladd). You could check with your local library system. I know that mine -- King County, WA -- has it.

[jorgecurioso]

It's quite good, and Lake and Ladd are really nice together. It's no "Sabrina" or "Roman Holiday", but it's a lot of fun.

[venisfurs]

veronica lake is so damm hot!

[blackwhimsy]

Indeed. She was also very tiny. At 4 foot 11,she was the only one of Alan Ladd's leading ladies who was shorter than he was.(5'6)

I love old movie sirens. The classic movies had really strong and interesting roles for women. They were sexy,but few of them were simpering wimps. They were also arresting,unusual beauties. Give me Ronnie Lake,Greta Garbo,Jean Harlow etc over Angelina Jolie and Nicole Botox Kidman any day.

[Giuseppe00XA]

My spelling of nonpareil in the last comment was bothering me so I looked it up. As I feared, it was badly misspelled. Nonpareil (one word) is correctly spelled in this comment.

[jorgecurioso]

Gran recupero, Giuseppe!  :-)

[Giuseppe00XA]

Veronica Lake had a kind of sultry sulleness in her on-screen demeanor that I find intriguing and sexy. Her beauty is really non pariel. I love watching her movies.

[msinarath]

One of my favorite movies featuring one of my favorite onscreen couples!

[assandthem]

nobody said yet she has a warm, cool , sensual voice

[forsythia77]

Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd...what great chemistry onscreen!

[bearcub410]

she was so beautiful no one like her , thanks

[sgiaries]

veronica lake was very beautiful, indeed.

[ukinvasion]

god, she is smoking

[AndreTheGigante]

agreed....totally agreed =)