The Death Kiss

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

 * Say, will you go up to your office and write bad little boy five hundred times?


 * Whoever rocked your cradle overdid it.

Dialogue

 * 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

 * Movie star MURDERED! KILLER on the loose!

Cast

 * 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