Edward G. Robinson plays a research assistant and former police reporter who now works on a true crime television series. He's got aspirations to write the show, but John Forsythe stands in his way in The Glass Web.
Forsythe is married to Marcia Henderson with two kids, but he made a bad mistake in straying from the fold into the arms of actress Kathleen Hughes. In fact that's how Kathleen's been rising in the profession. As Robinson says and he's another of her trophies, she had talents other than acting.
When Hughes winds up strangled, the police at first zero in on her poor hapless estranged husband John Verros who made the incriminating mistake of not canceling an insurance policy of $10,000.00. But Forsythe comes under scrutiny and Robinson finds out and proceeds to blackmail him.
The Glass Web was an interesting Hitchcock like thriller which bears some resemblance to the Ray Milland/Charles Laughton classic, The Big Clock. But even in 3-D, The Glass Web was operating on a much tighter budget.
How does it all end, let me say that Edward G. Robinson who is such a stickler for the minutest of details to give shows their realism is quite done in with that obsession. In fact the ironic thing is that if he didn't try to blackmail Forsythe he might have got away with it.
Kathleen Hughes is the real star of this film, one of the baddest of bad girls ever to grace the silver screen. She could have been a really big star with a few more roles as juicy as this one in The Glass Web.
The Glass Web packs a lot in its 81 minute running time, it's fast paced and entertaining. And as Robinson learns, the devil really can be in the details.
Forsythe is married to Marcia Henderson with two kids, but he made a bad mistake in straying from the fold into the arms of actress Kathleen Hughes. In fact that's how Kathleen's been rising in the profession. As Robinson says and he's another of her trophies, she had talents other than acting.
When Hughes winds up strangled, the police at first zero in on her poor hapless estranged husband John Verros who made the incriminating mistake of not canceling an insurance policy of $10,000.00. But Forsythe comes under scrutiny and Robinson finds out and proceeds to blackmail him.
The Glass Web was an interesting Hitchcock like thriller which bears some resemblance to the Ray Milland/Charles Laughton classic, The Big Clock. But even in 3-D, The Glass Web was operating on a much tighter budget.
How does it all end, let me say that Edward G. Robinson who is such a stickler for the minutest of details to give shows their realism is quite done in with that obsession. In fact the ironic thing is that if he didn't try to blackmail Forsythe he might have got away with it.
Kathleen Hughes is the real star of this film, one of the baddest of bad girls ever to grace the silver screen. She could have been a really big star with a few more roles as juicy as this one in The Glass Web.
The Glass Web packs a lot in its 81 minute running time, it's fast paced and entertaining. And as Robinson learns, the devil really can be in the details.