The Glass Cage (1955)

Actors

• Bruce Beeby (actor)
• Bernard Bresslaw (actor)
• Arthur Howard (actor)
• John Ireland (actor)
• Sid James (actor)
• Geoffrey Keen (actor)
• Sam Kydd (actor)
• Stan Little (actor)
• Arnold Marlé (actor)
• Ferdy Mayne (actor)
• Eric Pohlmann (actor)
• Liam Redmond (actor)
• Anthony Richmond (actor)
• Sydney Tafler (actor)
• Frank Williams (actor)

Genres

• Mystery

Taglines:

JAGGED EDGE OF VIOLENCE!...THAT SHATTERS THE SCREEN WITH SUSPENSE! (original USA print ad for "The Glass Tomb")

Quotes:

Pel Pelham: [referring to his son] But I want him to live on what he learns from books, not his wits. I don't want him outside the world always looking in. I don't want him to be an outsider.::Jenny Pelham: Oh, well, if you have to go around feeling sorry for yourself, at least put your pants on.

Pel Pelham: It takes very little to make people happy these days - only money.

Reporter: [in the murdered girl's apartment] Murder, murder, murder!::Lindley: A sad business, but it's a living. [leaving the room] Come on, boys. Soon as you wrap it up, get everything over to my office.::Reporter: Got any angles, sir?::Lindley: Well, let's see what Mr. Lewis the bookmaker has to say about the letter.::Reporter: Maybe she lost a bet.::Lindley: Maybe it was the other way around. Somebody paid her off, that's for sure!

Pel Pelham: Look, Lindley, you do your job; I'll do mine. I could never do your job because I'd always be for the underdog.::Lindley: That could be a dangerous dog sometimes.

Rorke: [on a subway platform] I'm only guessing, but I think it must have been very lonely for you sitting up in that room all that time with her so cold and so dead. But something I don't have to guess about - like how a man plays Santy Claus to a pretty young girl while... [the rest is indistinguishable as the train roars by]

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• The Rain - Redland
• So Far - Redland
• Heaven - Redland
• Epic - Redland
• Don't Know What It Means - Redland

I'd love to see you in the rain
When the cards are not falling your way
And your skies are so gray
And all that you have is your pain
I'd love to see you in the rain
When the cards are not falling your way
And your skies are so gray
And all that you have is your pain
I'd love to see you in the rain
I'd love to see you in the rain
I'd love to see you in the rain
And it's pouring now
Somebody took your sunshine with no warning now
So you put your walls up, they keep falling now
Tell me can you hear the Grim Reaper calling out
So tell me what would you do
When you hearing on the news a hurricane coming through
A president he don't put in no order
Had to wait in the water when you're tryna save your daughter
I know it's on the TV screen
And I know that to you it my seem
Like another show that you could go change the channel
But really though could you go and get a handle of reality
'Cause this could be your book to you
Don't care about the people who don't look like you
And I know it's hard to understand our pain
It's insane, little has changed
I'd love to see you in the rain
When the cards are not falling your way
And your skies are so gray
And all that you have is your pain
I'd love to see you in the rain
When the cards are not falling your way
And your skies are so gray
And all that you have is your pain
I'd love to see you in the rain
See you handle success but what about the rest
What if you lost your last all of excess
Would you still give praise does it say God bless
Maybe rough times will lead you in a APS
You know what they say that a smoker never quits
When he loses all his senses right back to cigarettes
Blinded by the lights like it was fate this thinking
You could beat the house because that's just another myth
So you won a couple hands and you on top of the world
But lady look as such, a promiscuous girl
But when you separate like Jennifer and Brad
Would you still give thanks for everything you had
Or would you turn in again cause instead I made you messy
That's what's separate the dropouts from the grands
And that's what separates the superstars from the fans
Clear skies from the storms, [?]
I'd love to see you in the rain
When the cards are not falling your way
And your skies are so gray
And all that you have is your pain
I'd love to see you in the rain
When the cards are not falling your way
And your skies are so gray
And all that you have is your pain
I'd love to see you in the rain
It's kinda funny how when you got money
You so hard and crum
Bud would you be so scrupulous if you ain't had a dime
Bet your stands would be different if you feel on hard times
Living in the ghetto [?] out of our times
Bet you scared when you give as you're peeking through the blinds
You probably get your hustle on get up on your grime
You probably try to get out the hood by any means
Even if it means selling dope to [?]
Without a hope or a dream, now you roped in a scheme
Where you close to the edge, do you know what that means?
People only scream 'bout how you need to change
And, oh he ain't living right and they don't know your name
And it gets so cold and makes you holler
So you sell your soul for a dollar
But the truth be told, you got no problem
And say I got no one to blame
I'd love to see you in the rain
When the cards are not falling your way
And your skies are so gray
And all that you have is your pain
I'd love to see you in the rain
When the cards are not falling your way
And your skies are so gray
And all that you have is your pain

[Intro/Bridge:]
Looking back on all I've done
I hear the voices calling
Boy did you get what you want
Or do you feel you're haunted
Do you fly amongst the stars
Or do you feel you're falling
Wishing you could change it all
[Chorus]:
But it's so far, it's so far
It's so far, it's so far, so far
[Verse 1:]
Looking back on all the things that I've said
I wish that I could build a time machine
Do the right thing change the world
Take that chance kiss that girl
Ah, but it don't work that way
I love my rear-view mirror, hell, what can I say
I credit my mistakes for half the things that I know
Steppin' blocks, steppin' stones,
That's the way that you grow
And I wish I didn't do it that way
Please tell me what can I say
But now everything is so far, ooo
Now you know who you are
So now I wish I could walk with you
And if I had the chance I'd talk with you
Tryin' to explain why I did everything
The way I did it
I know it's hard to live with, hard to come to grips with
The fact that I ain't got that chance
Somebody switched up the beat
Now we can't dance
Better yet, we at different tempos
Me and you close ain't what we was meant for
Uh, so now I'm asking God why
Even though I know the answer I'm asking God to try
To give me peace with what I know I can't change
Even if it's far away, away, away
[Chorus:]
It's so far, it's so far
It's so far, it's so far
It's so far, so far
[Verse 2:]
If I could change one thing I think I would
Go back and tell what I probably should
'Cept everything happened so fast that
I wish I had a chance to flash back
And erase that fatal mistake
Maybe I coulda stopped the whole thing from takin' place
But I failed to act I just sat there and watched
I just stood at the bar downin' shot after shot
Everyone focused on the girls we desire
Forgot to take his keys like Omar on The Wire
Got in his car geared up to drive
Little did we know that would be (his last ride)
Ignoring the red lights, ignoring the stop signs
The car loses control, he wish he could rewind
Ignoring the red lights, ignoring the stop signs
The car loses control, he wish he could rewind
[Bridge:]
Looking back on what I've done
I hear the voices calling
Boy did you get what you want
Or do you feel you're haunted
Do you fly amongst the stars
Or do you feel you're falling
Wishing you could change it all
[Chorus:]
But it's so far, it's so far