Alicia I love this movie so much

ThiefHott Too much of everything

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

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.

funkyfry I've been trying to locate this film for quite some time, and I wasn't disappointed by it. It's not a movie with a lot of gravity, but taken as just a nice little adventure romance it's quite satisfying. In a somewhat low budget or B film like this, you couldn't hope for a more fascinating hero than Glenn Ford nor a more nefarious and cultured villain than George Macready. I also thought that Geraldine Brooks was very beautiful and had a lot of positive energy, kind of like the early Veronica Lake. She has good chemistry with Ford and some of the back and forth between them is reminiscent of a Howard Hawks or John Farrow type of story. This film's director is Rudolph Mate, best known as the director of "D.O.A." but also a very significant cinematographer with films like Dreyer's "Passion of Joan of Arc", Lang's "Lilliom", William Wyler's "Dodsworth", King Vidor's "Stella Dallas" and other classics in his resume. He gives "The Green Glove" a steady veteran hand at the helm and an overall professional look despite the low budget he apparently had at his disposal. Mate was also the photographer of "Gilda", so perhaps it's not coincidence that two of its primary trio of stars appears in this film also."The Green Glove" itself is a famous religious relic that has been stolen (the Priest who guards it is played by Cedric Hardwicke, who is credited above Macready). Ford plays an American soldier who discovers the relic and returns to France years later to try to reclaim it. He meets the lovely tour guide Christine (Brooks) and she gets swept up in the suspense when the police find a dead body in Mike's (Ford) hotel room. They travel to Monte Carlo and try to find the jade-encrusted gauntlet before it can be seized by the shady art dealer Count Rona (Macready).It's a breezy film with some good action scenes, such as a fight between Ford and Macready's stooges and a climactic chase on perilous cliff tops. In some ways it's the good old fashioned kind of adventure movie that people who enjoy things like "Indiana Jones" and "Romancing the Stone" would appreciate, the older template for those types of movies. Ford is an appropriately ambiguous hero, and although the film is by no real stretch of imagination a "noir", he does have the ruminating and sometimes self-contradictory (or semi-suicidal) behavior that you see in many war veterans in those types of films. In terms of the film's meaning or message, it is obliquely about a veteran's efforts to return to the scene of his trauma and to try to correct some damage that he might have unintentionally taken part in. It's not clear right away however whether Mike wants to return the Green Glove to its sacred resting place or whether he wants to use it to achieve the elusive "American Dream" that he doesn't seem to be able to find at home. That makes him more ambiguous in the beginning, plus he keeps trying to tell his girlfriend that he's going to leave France in 2 days and never return, and it seems like he believes it. This is a man who in the beginning anyway has nothing to lose, and Ford plays these sort of detached and morally aloof characters very well.

Cristi_Ciopron TGG,an exquisite thriller, seems to begin like the mighty DOA—with its ending; but, in the end, we find out it does not. It is not a fatalistic noir, and not even much of a mystery, but a strong adventure movie and a suspenseful thriller.For me, Maté was one of the greatest unsung craftsmen of Hollywood—unfortunately eclipsed by notorious hacks. His films make others' thrillers look like slapdash.TGG's moments of comedy are absolutely admirable and charming—e.g., the nuptial comedy. And Ford once again proves he was not only a physical actor, but a convincing comedy actor, as well. In his youth, he made a handsome lead. With Maté, the achievements were not sporadic or accidental, but defining. I also believe he was one of the few directors to know how to film a leading man—he did that in DOA, he does it in TGG as well. The music here is by Kosma, and it's delicious. Atmospheric, astutely paced, TGG evolves in an atmosphere of threat and menace, as others post—WW2 stories. In a post—war France, an American ex—soldier searches for a legendary gauntlet.Maté was among the best that ever worked in Hollywood; his movies are defined by gusto, an unequaled feel for immensely enjoyable films; gusto and neatness, this is his cinema.

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.