The Poisoner's Handbook
2014 · 112 MIN · IMDB 8.3 · 370 VOTES · DIR. Rob Rapley
Overview
In 1918, when New York City hired its first scientifically trained medical examiner Charles Norris. Over the course of a decade and a half, Norris and his extraordinarily driven and talented chief toxicologist, Alexander Gettler, would turn forensic chemistry into a formidable science, sending many a murderer to the electric chair and setting the standards that the rest of the country would ultimately adopt.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,806 lines
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00:03:10 444 died in car accidents.
00:08:18 studied in Berlin and Vienna
00:12:10 Now, very few things drop people like a shot:
00:16:56 FIERRO: So then they have to go back
00:20:56 Both men got off.
00:26:23 NARRATOR: Charles had been unwell for a few weeks
00:30:31 Dionin, magnesium, sodium bicarbonate
00:35:54 Already, it was the most cosmopolitan.
00:40:31 a nose-stinging whiff of formaldehyde.
00:45:50 cars had transformed American life.
00:50:27 But the last question remained.
00:55:19 McAllister.
00:59:45 whether a dead body could absorb carbon monoxide.
01:04:37 It was called "denaturing," and under normal circumstances
01:09:03 accused Norris and his staff
01:13:56 Of course, the radium company said
01:19:44 almost half of the city is out of work.
01:23:52 for the carbon monoxide to finally kill him.
01:28:50 who coirmed that all the bodies contained thallium.
01:33:33 Rather, copper from the tin had leached into the powder.
01:38:31 about being too old for the job.
01:43:17 She couldn't be tried twice for the same crime.
01:47:34 FIERRO: Juries like the certainty of science.
20:19:03 a Brooklyn magistrate
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,806
Dialogue density16.1 lines / min
First line00:03:10
Final line20:19:03
Production Record
DirectorRob Rapley
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes370