One thing that I think works really well with The Glove is John Saxon’s narrations as Sam throughout the film. As Sam recounts the events seen in the film, he comes off as a hard-boiled private eye who’s one whiskey on the rocks away from finding his smoking gun and having a breakthrough with his case. My initial reaction was that this is an absolute cheese-ball way to move the story forward, but as The Glove progressed into its second and third acts, I grew to enjoy this narrative method more than I’d care to admit.
The juxtaposition between what Sam’s saying to his cohorts and what he’s actually thinking adds depth and tension to the story that otherwise leaves a lot to be desired. I’m normally used to this narrative style in the context of parody (Phil Hartman’s Saturday Night Live audition tapes, for example), but it works well for The Glove, which plays it straight.