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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. [1]
Quiet Please: Murder. Book thief/forger sells a fake book to a Nazi through a female agent. A detective tries to uncover who the forger is and gets in the middle of a three way struggle for rare books and revenge in a public library.
In the onscreen credits, the title Quiet Please Murder is written in form of a library sign, with no punctuation. Some contemporary sources, however, list the film as Quiet, Please-Murder.
Century-Fox Film Corp. (PWH); 4Feb70; R478798. Reviewer: BornBohemian - - August 22, 2022. Subject: Great Plot! If you're not familiar with Denning, he's a private dick in this one, but always falls upon wrongdoers in his movies, and so he does here and has to ferret out the bad guys, whereas Sanders is the villain, and their chance meeting ...
A detective tries to uncover who the forger is and gets in the middle of a three way struggle for rare books and revenge in a public library. Jim Fleg ( George Sanders ), a ruthless, egotistical criminal, steals a priceless Shakespeare folio from the public library, killing a guard during the crime. With his partner Myra Blandy ( Gail Patrick ...
Quiet Please, Murder has everything a cinephile would want from a B-movie: forgers, arrogant rich creeps, Nazis, sexy broads, murder, books, and George Sanders, all briskly presented by veteran screenwriter John Francis Larkin in the first of only two features he directed.
This thriller about murder, double dealing and betrayal in the forged book racket starts out promisingly, but all too quickly any real plot is abandoned and things just starts going around in circles.
