1940s American Films

"Silvio, the Human Bomb: In this sack, I have forty kilos of dynamite, and I don't mean ravioli!"

"It isn't in Brampton's room. That proves he did it! He's covering up!"

"[Signing the mortgage] "Contractum sanctum putnam," which means done and dished up!"

"[about Bill Leyden] If the army didn't need him, I would have committed him to the squirrel pen at Idlewild Sanitarium, so help me!"

"If he is a choreographer, then I am Pavlova."

"Do you imagine I could take advantage, exploit, capitalize on a great scientific discovery? Cheat millions of people all the world over? Profane my profession? Suppose I make a few dollars, don't you think I wouldn't put it right back into science?"

"Amelia, this riffraff, as you call him, is really the salt of the earth. All he needs is to be iodized."

"Edward Van Sloan — Dr. Ralph Howard"

"Bruce Bennett — Dr. Paul Ames"

"Evelyn Keyes — Martha Garth"

"Boris Karloff — Dr. John Garth"

"Chill-filled tale of a monster!"

"DOOMED TO KILL...BY THE MURDERER'S BLOOD IN HIS VEINS!"

"Beware! When Karloff stops the clock, your hour has come!"

"Capt. McGraw: Dr. Garth, whatever he is, is the first man I've ever met who was polite to me and still made the chills run up and down my spine!"

"Victor Sondini: You know, it's not so easy to say the end is coming - the fire is burned out!"

"There's a curtain, a wall I can't get through."

"Someday, somehow, medical science will find a way to end the needless, ghastly suffering caused by the ravages of age!"

"Stanley Brown — Bob Adams"

"Jo Ann Sayers — Judith Blair"

"Roger Pryor — Dr. Tim Mason"

"Boris Karloff — Dr. Leon Kravaal"

"Resurrected from a tomb of ice!"

"There's no use kidding ourselves - we're in a spot."

"Metabolism at this time is practically nil!"

"No other doctor has ever been able to grasp the basic principles of what I am doing. I've explained it to the highest authorities in medicine, and they scoffed at it, calling me insane! I must furnish them a living proof!"

"It's yesterday afternoon to me, but to you it's ten years ago!"

"A shudder a second! A laugh a minute!"

"Paul McVey — Detective Grady"

"John Dilson — Charles Fraser"

"Virginia Carpenter — Louise Benton"

"Huntley Gordon — Dr. Norman Wilkes"

"Charles F. Miller — Dr. Benton"

"Lotus Long — Win Lee"

"Grant Withers — Police Captain Street"

"Keye Luke — James Lee Wong"

"A Slight Case Of Murder... Solved by Jimmy Wong!"

"A thousand suspects... 20 fingerprints... a Chinese temple... Mr. Wong solves a murder!"

"You're very clever, Mr. Wong, but you still don't have the scroll - and you'll never get it!"

"Mr. Wong, I think you've been reading too many detective stories!"

"I don't want to hear any more Oriental hocus-pocus. All I want to know is, who killed Dr. Benton!"

"1,000 fingerprints, 25 suspects, ancient scrolls - What a case!"

"There's just one thing - in every murder mystery and detective story I've ever read, the person they throw the most suspicion on is never the killer!"

"Greetings. Only the eyebrows of youth would have the temerity to call the beard of age at such an hour."

"William Stelling — Dick Fleming"

"Grant Withers — Capt. William 'Bill' Street"

"Marjorie Reynolds — Roberta 'Bobbie' Logan"

"Boris Karloff — James Lee Wong"

"The master of crime cleans up the dirty game of murder!"

"Austin Fairman — George Bennett"