
The Glass Key(1942)
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.


An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arise.

Margaret Lockwood
Anne Graham

Barry K. Barnes
Stephen Farringdon

Emlyn Williams
Tracy

Roger Livesey
Bill Maher

Basil Radford
Doctor Threadgrove

Margaretta Scott
Judith Bentley

Wyndham Goldie
Edward Bentley

Irene Handl
Gertrude Mary Blaker

Mervyn Johns
James Fetherwood
Betty Jardine
Elsie
Girl in the News is a crime, thriller film released in 1940. Directed by Carol Reed, it stars Margaret Lockwood, Barry K. Barnes, Emlyn Williams. An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arise.
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