Quiet Please, Murder

Quiet Please, Murder
1943
★★★☆☆ 6.8/10
⏱️ 70 min
📅 Released
🌐 EN
CrimeDramaThriller
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

User Reviews

CinemaSerf
★ 7/10
June 26, 2022
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.

Crew

Director
John Francis Larkin
Writer
Lawrence G. Blochman, John Francis Larkin
Producer
William Goetz, Ralph Dietrich

Production

20th Century Fox

Keywords

libraryworld war iiblackoutfilm noirmurderforgerynazi underworld