The Glass Cage (1955)

Actors

• Dandy Nichols (actress)
• Bernard Bresslaw (actor)
• Arthur Howard (actor)
• John Ireland (actor)
• Sid James (actor)
• Geoffrey Keen (actor)
• Sam Kydd (actor)
• James Needs (editor)
• Montgomery Tully (director)
• Ferdy Mayne (actor)
• Eric Pohlmann (actor)
• Liam Redmond (actor)
• Anthony Hinds (producer)
• Honor Blackman (actress)
• Sydney Tafler (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

There's a girl who believes
In all she ever sees
And the pictures on the screen are heaven
There's a boy who believes
That this girl's his queen
And he'll do anything for heaven
I gotta wonder how we prioritize our lives
Tryin' to earn dollars like God accepts bribes
Concerned with appearance after all it ain't a lie
Won't we all decide to turn the blind eye
Outraise but then you said nevermind
Cause it came now? you admit that's slow wind?
Every hustler tells me that they really have to climb
To put food on the table or do they like to shine
Rims on your truck's saying just getting by
Diamonds round your neck to catch that girl's eye
And she wanna dress to get you to come by
Only if you're fresh an' your car's real fly
She don't like you or she's in love with what you drive
And if it strike you rich, she'll be your trophy ride
So now husband and wife ain't going the same side
Her heaven is the good life, his is between the thighs
There's a girl who believes
In all she ever sees
And the pictures on the screen are heaven
There's a boy who believes
That this girl's his queen
And he'll do anything for heaven
She had it all planned early in her life
Hook up with a tall man gotta treat her right
And maybe one day he would even call her wife
Have one or two kids that'll be alright
But like the seasons everything must change
That was not enough love and it was too much pain
She walked around depressed from the weight she gained
But she just claimed it's the kids to blame
And ain't that a shame she don't trust her husband
She swears that she love him but she won't touch him
Fussin' I was the prom queen you forgot
You promised me the world now we barely own the blocks
Stop! and so she slips into her own little world
As she takes a sip, another shot of the potion
To keep her mind open, keep her mind coasting
Put her dreams in motion she pours herself an ocean
And what you might call wrong she call coping
And who are you to judge when my husband don't show love
And my kid is on drugs
Yeah, now her life is enough to make her pour another cup
Why she wanna give it up
She tryin' her best to go through
Sing a-a-a-a-aa- a family circle
There's a girl who believes
In all she ever sees
And the pictures on the screen are heaven
There's a boy who believes
That this girl's his queen

I got my shield I got my armor together
Please believe that I ain't scared, I am prepared for whatever
I ain't intimidated by you imitators of realness
You know who you are so if you ain't true should feel this
Now real quick let's talk about today's news
Educated fools trying to educate you
Trying to get some knowledge just to find your way through
But the truth is so skew/obscure it's just what they do
And some leanin', leanin' for weeks can say some
Others travel the world tour but they don't mean nothing
And ain't judging but the point is that
You can even make a stand lying on your back
Now could you please keep my souls intact
So years after I'm gone y'all can play this back
And in the time I smile from the sky
Knowing we will never die
They say we're lost they call us insane
They don't know what we're fighting for
But they don't know we're living in pain
We ain't gonna take it no more
We won't cry 'cause we're gonna fight
And we gonna fight and we won't die
And we won't cry 'cause we're gonna fight
And we won't die, and we won't die
And we won't die
All I wanna say is that they don't give a damn
Unless they need more bodies to send to Afghanistan
Or Iraq or maybe even Iran
But not Darfur; what for?
Helping blacks ain't the plan
We only go to war for the corporations
Oil companies and the Halliburtons
Meanwhile they trample on the Constitution
'Cause politics is more like prostitution
Million dollar campaign contribution
I think it's 'bout time for a revolution
They manipulate our fears to cause confusion
The real enemy is this administration
Just look at their lack of concentration
On the problems with the health care and education
And long after my EKG goes flat line
I told in these rhymes I will never die
They say we're lost they call us insane
They don't know what we're fighting for
But they don't know we're living in pain
We ain't gonna take it no more
We won't cry 'cause we're gonna fight
And we gonna fight and we won't die
And we won't cry 'cause we're gonna fight
And we won't die, we won't die
And we won't die
See you could find us, ban us?, us
But we won't die we're like a couple highlanders
Immortals for the sci-fi illiterate
Found the youth in the booth
Can't get a sip of it
Band wagon filling up better get your ticket quick
Before the RedLand's deemed illegal by the Government
Cause we're some rebels pretty much just for the fun of it
Living life righteous baby and I am loving it
What is it for? These words we record
Every note every chord made for you to absorb
So be sure on stage on tour
You can feel the fours only of course
If the song's right we light the night from the dark
Despite what we're called we fight for the cause
Recite to the stars what's rightfully ours
They'll never take from us, what to take from us?
They say we're lost they call us insane
They don't know what we're fighting for
But they don't know we're living in pain
We ain't gonna take it no more
We won't cry 'cause we're gonna fight
And we gonna fight and we won't die
And we won't cry 'cause we're gonna fight
And we won't die, and we won't die

He's the one who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he
Don't know what it means
Don't know what it means
Don't know what it means
Don't know what it means
He's the one who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he
Don't know what it means
Don't know what it means
Don't know what it means
Don't know what it means
And I say
He don't know what it means
He just wanna dress clean
Get high, pop beans
Find girls to demean
Sees how they tipped me
Sees how they sip me
Sees how they hooked up
Now he wanna cause a scene
Making up for the attention
He was missing as a teen
Male turned to wild
Thing like Charlie Sheen
But he ain't major league
He ain't even on the team
He just loves to deceive
Acts like he lives a dream
In reality things ain't all what they seem
Always [?] holding a thing
He's just looking for a chick to live
With another scheme
Looking for the broad with the lowest self-esteem
Talk her out of money to cop to my screams
That he's so Farrel Rocket in that Vibe magazine
He don't know a true king treats a lady like a queen
Caught up in the image but he don't know what it means
He's the one who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he
Don't know what it means
Don't know what it means
Don't know what it means
Don't know what it means
And I say
Lord forgive me for the things I've done
And all the things I did not say
Please excuse me if you shot your gun
I didn't mean to sound that way
I tried my best to give to you
All that I have left
Always speak the truth
Do the best I can
To help you understand
To be a better man
But maybe that's all over
Everything I did was to survive
You can't walk in my shoes but still you try
Now it doesn't mean you don't know why
Why don't you spread your wings and fly
But still I pray you'll find the day
The truth you'll say
You found your way
You led the you
You found your truth
In everything you do
You know what it feels
He's the one who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he
Don't know what it means
Don't know what it means
Don't know what it means
Don't know what it means
And I say
He's the one who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he
Don't know what it means
Don't know what it means
Don't know what it means