Phantom Lady (film)

Phantom Lady is a 1944 film noir about a beautiful secretary who risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his selfish wife.

Ella Raines as Carol "Kansas" Richman and Alan Curtis as Scott Henderson.

Franchot Tone as Jack Marlow with Ella Raines as Carol "Kansas" Richman.

Directed by Robert Siodmak. Written by Bernard C. Schoenfeld, based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich.

The most talked about mystery in ten years!taglines

Jack Marlow

• What a place. I can feel the rats in the wall.

Dialogue

Cliff Milburn: You and I are going to have fun tonight, Jeannie! You like jive?

Carol Richman: You bet! I'm a hep kitten!

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[Carol 'Kansas' Richman listens to a message left on a dictaphone machine]

Scott Henderson: Hello, Kansas. Renew my membership to the Architects and Engineers Association and call Mason and Follett, the contractors, and make an appointment with them for tomorrow morning.

[Carol begins to hang up the dictaphone's sound tube]

Scott Henderson: Uh, uh, uh, don't hang up. You know you're having dinner with me tonight, and tomorrow night, and the next night, and then every night.

[dictaphone skips and repeats end of message]

Scott Henderson: ... every night... every night... every night.

Taglines

• The most talked about mystery in ten years!
• IT'S UNIQUE...suspense...mystery...drama!
• A STORY THAT HAS THRILLED MILLIONS!

Cast

• Franchot Tone - Jack Marlow
• Ella Raines - Carol "Kansas" Richman
• Alan Curtis - Scott Henderson
• Aurora Miranda - Estela Monteiro (as Aurora)
• Thomas Gomez - Inspector Burgess
• Fay Helm - Ann Terry
• Elisha Cook, Jr. - Cliff Milburn
• Andrew Tombes - Bartender (Mac)
• Regis Toomey - Detective (Chewing Gum)
• Joseph Crehan - Detective (Tom)
• Virginia Brissac - Dr. Chase
• Milburn Stone - voice of District Attorney
• Doris Lloyd - Kettisha

External links

• Phantom Lady quotes at the Internet Movie Database