The Green Glove (1952) - Video On Demand

The Green Glove - Movie Review

The Green Glove is an action adventure film starring Glenn Ford, directed by Rudolph Mate. Glenn Ford stars as an American paratrooper who travels to France after the end of World War II to try and recover a jewel encrusted glove that had been stolen from a country church during the war. His quest leads him to a beautiful young tour guide (Geraldine Brooks), and a Nazi collaborator (George Macready) whom he had fought during the war.

In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona, who leaves behind a gem studded gauntlet (a stolen religious relic). Years later, financial reverses lead Mike to return in search of the object. In Paris, he must dodge mysterious followers and a corpse that's hard to explain; so he and attractive tour guide Christine decamp on a cross-country pursuit that becomes love on the run...then takes yet another turn.

Since Charles Bennett is responsible for both the story and script of "The Green Glove," one might reasonably expect suspense and melodrama of a high order in the newcomer at the Criterion. Charles Bennett, it may be recalled, was the scenarist on several top thrillers in this genre, including The 39 Steps. However, "The Green Glove" is not in that echelon, but is a stirring chase after a medieval, bejewelled gauntlet filched from a rural French church.

Although casting and dialogue are not its attributes, "The Green Glove" does have the redeeming features of having been filmed in such truly picturesque areas as Monte Carlo and its environs and Paris. And the climactic scurrying by both its hero and villain over the crags of the rugged country-side is taut enough to give a mountain goat the megrims. Rudolph Mate, the director, and Claude Renoir, his cinematographer, have taken full advantage of the scenic terrain, its winding roads, an ancient castle, an equally ancient church as well as the City of Light and its Eiffel Tower, subways and bistros.

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