Quiet Please: Murder (1942) DVD-R

Starring George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts, Sidney Blackmer,
Paul Porcasi, Mae Marsh, Lon McCallister
Directed by John Larkin

Print: black/white
Runtime: 70 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

A public library at night is the setting for this fast-moving crime caper. George Sanders is a
gentleman crook specializing in selling forgeries of rare books. In the company of phony
policemen, Sanders enters the library unmolested and pilfers a priceless Shakespeare folio
in order to expedite his operation. The criminal's girl friend/accomplice Gail Patrick is willing
to go along with the crime until Sanders begins displaying a homicidal streak. She calls in a
detective (Richard Denning) to foil the criminal. A murder or two later, Sanders is tracked
down amidst the dark, forbidding library shelves. It's no small trick to make a library
exciting, but Quiet Please, Murder pulls this off with speed and economy.