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.
00:08:11 at Columbia University.
00:11:57 Cyanide interferes with your body's ability
00:16:41 COLIN EVANS: They then contacted the hotel manager
00:20:27 You had no way of knowing what to expect
00:25:37 but the older couple had since passed away.
00:29:50 the county physician had used.
00:34:22 murder Mrs. Creighton with arsenic?
00:39:28 Vision blurs, and blindness closes in.
00:44:29 Leaded gasoline.
00:49:10 For this, he compared the shade of his solution
00:53:58 Norris was relieved when his old nemesis Mayor Hylan left office
00:58:03 But Charles Norris was sure he knew the answer.
01:02:24 The jury found Francesco Travia not guilty of murder.
01:07:18 the Treasury Department announced that denatured alcohol
01:11:37 they named it radium because of its radioactivity.
01:16:46 FIERRO: Business could run wild with workers' safety in those days.
01:21:50 And they all look at Mike Malloy passed out again and think
01:26:23 a neighborhood of immigrants, cold water tenements...
01:30:33 and isolate it in a clear solution.
01:35:22 he started to cry.
01:40:28 So nobody took any notice
01:44:42 EVANS: And the only obstacle
01:49:24 At 75, Gettler estimated that he had analyzed
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,806
Dialogue density16.1 lines / min
First line00:03:10
Final line01:49:24
Production Record
DirectorRob Rapley
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes370