Quiet Please, Murder
Appearance
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![]() Film still with Richard Denning and Gail Patrick | |
Directed by | John Larkin |
Written by | Lawrence G. Blochman (story) John Larkin |
Produced by | Ralph Dietrich |
Starring | George Sanders Gail Patrick Richard Denning |
Cinematography | Joseph MacDonald |
Edited by | Louis R. Loeffler |
Music by | Emil Newman |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
Release dates |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Quiet Please, Murder is a 1942 drama directed by John Larkin, starring George Sanders, Gail Patrick and Richard Denning. Based on the short story Death Walks in Marble Halls by Lawrence G. Blochman that appeared in American Magazine (Sep 1942).[1] The film is also known under the title Death from the Sanskrit.
Premise
Jim Fleg, a book thief/forger, sells a fake book to a Nazi through Myra Blandy, a female agent.
Cast
- George Sanders as Jim Fleg
- Gail Patrick as Myra Blandy
- Richard Denning as Hal McByrne
- Lynne Roberts as Kay Ryan
- Sidney Blackmer as Martin Cleaver
- Kurt Katch as Eric Pahsen
- Byron Foulger as Edmund Walpole
- George Walcott as Benson
- Paul Porcasi as Rebescu
- Margaret Brayton as Miss Oval
- Mae Marsh as Miss Hartwig
- Lon McCallister as Freddie, the Stack Boy (as Bud McCallister)
- Charles Tannen as Hollis, phoney detective in dark coat
- Arthur Space as Vance
- Charles Cane as Inspector Henderson
References
- ^ Quiet Please, Murder, Turner Classic Movies
External links
- Quiet Please Murder at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Quiet Please, Murder at IMDb
- Quiet Please, Murder at AllMovie
- Quiet Please, Murder at the TCM Movie Database
Categories:
- 1942 films
- 1943 films
- 1940s crime drama films
- 20th Century Fox films
- American films
- American black-and-white films
- American crime drama films
- American detective films
- English-language films
- Film noir
- Films about con artists
- Films based on short fiction
- Films scored by Emil Newman
- Films set on the home front during World War II
- World War II films made in wartime
- World War II spy films
- 1942 drama films
- 1943 drama films
- 1940s drama film stubs