Book crushed the movie.

I must say I was thoroughly disappointed with the movie version of  The Glass Key.  I felt that the changes of the main characters name was totally pointless.  Changing “Ned” to “Ed” was close but when we first meet the “Shad O’Rory” it took me a minute to realize it was him because they changed it to “Nick Vonner” forgive my spelling. 

Also instead of having Ned and Janet working together to solve the murder, it’s just Ned and there’s no real reporting.  Despain is completely is not mentioned in the movie, and Ned doesn’t have his spy, Jack, to help him.  I think there were a lot of main components that shouldn’t have been taken out.  the movie wasn’t even long, so I don’t think time would have really been a problem.  The ending also was bad, the two lovebirds just run off happily together with Paul’s blessing.  In the book  can’t even tell if Ned even likes Janet Henry, and Paul leaves miserable at the end mumbling incoherent words out the door.  Not to mention that in the book Madvig and Henry were never engaged.  That was something that was unnecessary. 

sure the movie ended up being fairly amusing, but I just don’t think it held up to the book well enough.

who agrees?

“What a sock”!, “What a Battle”!, What a poor misrepresentation of a great mystery book!