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The Glass Key

  • Drama
  • Thriller

June 15, 1935 (US)

1h 18m

He carries his love in his iron fists!

When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on.

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