Quiet Please, Murder

Synopsis: Wartime thriller starring George Sanders in which he plays a forger who steals Richard Burbage’s personal copy of Shakespeare’s Hamlet from a library and then sells copies of it to collectors through an intermediary. His plan starts to unravel when a copy is sold to a Nazi agent who realises it is a fake.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Film
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of release: 1943
Notes: Based on the short story "Death Walks in Marble Halls" by Lawrence G. Blochman. The working title of this film was, Death from the Sanskrit.
Subjects: Shakespeare
Keywords: forgery; Folio editions