The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935 film)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a 1935 film about an opium-addicted choirmaster who develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her.
 * Directed by Stuart Walker. Written by Leopold Atlas and John L. Balderston, based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

Rosa Bud

 * [about Jasper] When I'm dressed, I feel as if he were looking through the wall at me!

Other

 * Miss Twinkleton: [addressing her students] Ladies, a crisis is a test of breeding. Remember you're Britons!


 * Mr. Septimus Crisparkle: [to Neville] Tomorrow you're my pupil, but today you are my guest.

Dialogue

 * Rosa Bud: Oh, Helena, I'm frightened!
 * Helena Landless: Mr. Jasper?
 * Rosa Bud: He haunts my thoughts like a dreadful ghost!


 * John Jasper: [Awakening from his stupor] What was I doing?
 * The Opium Woman: Stranglin' me! You can't go around stranglin' people without payin' for it!


 * John Jasper: Mr. Neville, In my presence two nights ago did you or did you not raise a knife against my Ned?
 * Neville Landless: I did.
 * Mayor Thomas Sapsea: A knife? Mmmm... most un-English!


 * John Jasper: Captain, there's been a miscarriage of justice!
 * Mayor Thomas Sapsea: Impossible. I've never left my desk.

Cast

 * Claude Rains — John Jasper
 * David Manners — Edwin Drood
 * Heather Angel — Rosa Bud
 * Valerie Hobson — Helena Landless
 * E.E. Clive — Mayor Sapsea
 * Francis L. Sullivan — The Rev. Mister Septimus Crisparkle
 * Douglass Montgomery — Neville Landless
 * Walter Kingsford — Mr. Grewgious
 * Zeffie Tilbury — Princess Puffer