The Death Kiss
Appearance
The Death Kiss is a 1932 film about an actor who is murdered during to filming of a movie.
- Directed by Edwin L. Marin. Written by Gordon Kahn and Barry Barrigan.
Movie star MURDERED! KILLER on the loose! (taglines)
Det. Lt. Sheehan
[edit]- Say, will you go up to your office and write bad little boy five hundred times?
- Whoever rocked your cradle overdid it.
Dialogue
[edit]- Franklyn Drew: I've just come from Chalmers' place. He's dead.
- Marcia Lane: Chalmers?
- Franklyn Drew: Poisoned.
- Marcia Lane: You mean murdered?
- Franklyn Drew: If it isn't that, it's a good imitation of it.
- Franklyn Drew: Poison, all right. Familiar smelling stuff too.
- Officer Gulliver: [smells glass] Boy! That guy'd drink anything that wasn't too thick to chew.
- Officer Gulliver: Mr. Drew, I've been thinking.
- Franklyn Drew: No!
- Officer Gulliver: Yeah. The first thing I ask myself when I investigates a murder is 'who done it'.
- Franklyn Drew: Well that sounds logical.
- Officer Gulliver: And the next thing I ask myself is 'who could do it.'
- Franklyn Drew: And then?
- Officer Gulliver: Then I ask myself again 'who wanted to do it.'
- Franklyn Drew: And how do you answer yourself?
- Officer Gulliver: Well... I ain't come to that yet.
- Det. Lt. Sheehan: Everybody here seems to know more about police matters than the police.
- Franklyn Drew: It's noble of you to admit it.
- Det. Lt. Sheehan: It's as simple as A-B-C.
- Franklyn Drew: Yes it would be if you thought of it.
- Sgt. Owen Hilliker: I'm beginnin' to think you're givin' us the razz.
- Franklyn Drew: Prove it. You're the detective.
- Det. Lt. Sheehan: What are you and that Keystone Cop doing here?
- Officer Gulliver: Now lookie here, Sheehan, you can't talk that way about me. Remember, I'm Chief of the Studio Police and I got rights! I... I...
- Det. Lt. Sheehan: Nature in the raw.
Taglines
[edit]- Movie star MURDERED! KILLER on the loose!
Cast
[edit]- David Manners — Franklyn Drew
- Adrienne Ames — Marcia Lane
- Bela Lugosi — Joseph Steiner
- John Wray — Detective Lieut. Sheehan
- Vince Barnett — Officer Gulliver
- Alexander Carr — Leon A. Grossmith
- Edward Van Sloan — Tom Avery
- Harold Minjir — Howell
- Barbara Bedford — Script Girl
- Al Hill — Assistant Director
- Harold Waldridge — Charlie
- Wade Boteler — Sergeant Hilliker
- Lee Moran — Todd
External links
[edit]- The Death Kiss quotes at the Internet Movie Database