Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

VividSimon Simply Perfect

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

mark.waltz From fancy French hotels to the mountains of Monaco, this action packed adventure involves religious symbols of healing, human greed and one man's determination to stop evil from catching up to him no matter what it takes. There are certain movies where it is plainly obvious from the opening credits who the hero is, and who the villain is. Obviously, Glenn Ford is the good guy, framed for murder simply because he stumbled upon the mystery of the green glove and got stuck with it. Now, it's his goal to get it back to the mountain top church where the bells have stopped ringing because of its theft. By accident, he hooks up with innocent Geraldine Brooks, all the while trying to outwit evil nobleman George MacReady, up to Hus usual sinister tricks, and determined to prevent Ford from completing his mission. Sometimes good, sometimes bad, Sir Cedric Hardwicke is the picture of nobility here, the vessel through whom the vessel is told. It's an interesting reunion for Ford and MacReady, but sadly, Brooks is no "Gilda". Some exciting train sequences are followed by the climactic scene on a steep mountain where evil and good come head to head. A bit too complex at times, this is entertaining but sometimes perplexing. Yet, the mystery comes nicely together, giving a satisfying conclusion that truly shows the miracle of the bells and the magic of the glove.

ksf-2 The story opens with a priest finding a gauntlet and a dead soldier, and he is glad to see that "the famous green glove" has returned.... the rest of the story is the flashback where we see the events leading up to this. Glenn Ford is Mike Blake, American, post war. He makes pals with local french girl "Chris" in Paris, who is a tour guide (Geraldine Brooks). They are questioned by the gendarme when a dead man shows up in Mike's room. Sound quality is TERRIBLE, and the picture quality is just OK, and this was probably made from a public domain copy. Lots of running about, adventures, train rides. People who claim not to speak English, but react violently when they eavesdrop. Traipsing around castles. It's okay.... the story is kind of over the river and through the woods. Dramatic musical score. The acting is fine.... just that the story kind of drags. Turner shows this one about once a year. rare find for Glenn Ford fans. This one, sometimes called "the white road" is also part of the four-pack of Mystery Classics from TreeLine Films, 2004.Written by Charles Bennett, who worked with Hitchcock on TONS of stuff. was even nominated for an Oscar for Foreign Correspondent. Directed by Rudolph Mate; HE was nominated for FIVE Oscars in the 1940s. didn't win.

sol1218 ****SPOILERS**** Over-plotted and ridicules movie about a relic green glove that's the object of the films jewelry hunt up and down the mountains hills railroads and goat tracks of central and southern France. In the film Michael Blake, Glen Ford, sees the light in the end, or you can also say beginning, of the movie and returns the valuable glove to the Abbey of St. Elzear where it was lost for seven years during the last days of the Second World War. With that unselfish deed Michael made the Abbey's bells ring again.Long, even though the film is under 90 minutes, and senseless movie that stretches it's story with a snoozing train ride and a unintentionally hilarious chase up and down the steep and dangerous goat track by the St. Elzear Abbey. At that time Michael is persuade by Count Paul Rona, George Macready, and his hoods to get their hands on the green glove that's in his possession. The movie ends, like it started, with the bells ringing at the Abbey's bell tower as the green glove was returned to it. In fact the ending was not what you thought it was from what you saw at the beginning of the film. Michael got involved with the green glove when he dropped in on St. Elzear, back in August 1944, as a US paratrooper. After taking Rona, who he caught stealing it, prisoner as a German spy the ceiling suddenly crashed down on him, after being hit by an artillery shell, with Rona fleeing and Michael ending up with the green glove. Michael left it, the glove, with some towns-people who had no idea what was in the satchel that Michael gave them as he took off to the more important grind of fighting and winning the war. Coming back to Paris after the war was over Michael tries to get things right by having the green glove returned, after he finds those who he gave it to, gets involved in a number of murders which he and his girlfriend and tourist guide Chris, Geraldine Brooks, were framed for by the devious Rona. Rona and his thugs followed Michael to France in order to get the green glove for himself. Michael also gets beaten up and knocked around with him falling through a glass sky-window. Later he almost drinks himself blind drunk in his effort to return the green glove back to it's rightful owners, the people of St. Elzear . Michael is reunited with Chris at the end of the movie and even with all the physical endurance and battering around that he went through in the film his hair is still oiled and so neat that not one single strand is left out of place.

John Seal The Green Glove is a medieval relic, removed during World War II, that Glenn Ford needs to return to its proper resting place. The story isn't particularly interesting, but a fine cast, highlighted by a thoroughly radiant Geraldine Brooks, makes this one worth a look. The film also benefits from French location work and the finale--a pursuit across, up, and over some incredibly steep terrain--is positively Hitchcockian.