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Quotes from The Walking Dead (1936)

6 quotes
Ricardo Cortez
Nolan: [as the crooked lawyer misses a shot on a pool table] Straight shot and I missed it!

Henry O'Neill
Dr. Evan Beaumont: All I know is that for a short time the spirit of life left his body. Now, what happened during that transition? What effect did the experience of death have on his subconscious mind. Can he remember?
District Attorney Werner: Well, it's rather a large order, doctor, and I'm afraid a bit beyond the province of law...
Dr. Evan Beaumont: ...and beyond the province of science too, but it's a challenge, and somewhere, I think, we'll find the key to all this.
District Attorney Werner: If you do, I hope you'll let me know.
- Henry O'Neill (as District Attorney Werner) in The Walking Dead (1936)

Boris Karloff
John Ellman: [Responding to Beaumont's questions while dying] Leave the dead to their makers. The Lord, thy God is a jealous god.
Dr. Evan Beaumont: [Feeling a sense of urgency] But, John, what is death? Can't you put it into words? Tell me! Tell me! You must! what is death?
John Ellman: I think I can...
[after a pause]
John Ellman: After the shock...
Dr. Evan Beaumont: Yes?
John Ellman: I seemed to feel...
Dr. Evan Beaumont: Yes?
John Ellman: ...peace and a...
[He dies]
- Boris Karloff (as John Ellman) in The Walking Dead (1936)

Boris Karloff
John Ellman: But you can't kill me for something I didn't do! You can't!
- Boris Karloff (as John Ellman) in The Walking Dead (1936)

Boris Karloff
[looking up to Heaven, while being led to the electric chair]
John Ellman: *He'll* believe me.
- Boris Karloff (as John Ellman) in The Walking Dead (1936)

Edmund Gwenn
Dr. Evan Beaumont: He's happier now.
Dr. Evan Beaumont: It will never be known. The Lord thy God is a jealous God!
- Edmund Gwenn (as Dr. Evan Beaumont) in The Walking Dead (1936)