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Quiet Please, Murder (1942)

Quiet Please, Murder poster
Directed by
John Larkin
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A forger tries to sell rare books to a wealthy collector but gets caught up in a murder. The police and a determined woman close in on him.

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What happens

Quiet Please, Murder is a 1942 drama film directed by John Larkin and 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 the September 1942 issue of American Magazine, it is also known under the title Death from the Sanskrit. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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