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Quiet Please, Murder

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A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1943-03-19

Runtime: 70 mins

Director: John Francis Larkin

Spoken language: English

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Original title: Quiet Please, Murder

Production Companies: 20th Century Fox

Production Countries: United States of America

Reviews

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Geronimo1967
George Sanders ("Fleg) is up to no good in this light-hearted tale of theft and forgery. He has pinched an original Shakespeare folio and has been subsequently flogging copies. Unfortunately for him, his selling agent "Myra" (Gail Patrick) is none too bright and when she inadvertently sells one of his copies to a Nazi - their very lives are soon in peril, and it might actually be policeman "McByrne" (Richard Denning) who comes to their rescue! The acting is good, the writing quite pithy and it packs quite a lot into 70 minutes. Maybe the production is a touch basic; the settings are all a bit too static, but unlike so many of these cheap and cheerful B features, this one has a decent story that is actually quite enjoyable to watch.
2022-06-26

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