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prov. 1 a murderer will always be discovered. 2 (context idiomatic English) secrets or hidden crimes will eventually be exposed or discovered; nothing that is secret can remain a secret forever.
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Murder Will Out may refer to:
- Murder Will Out (1899 film), a lost 1899 French silent film by Georges Méliès
- Murder Will Out (1930 film), a 1930 American drama film starring Jack Mulhall
- Murder Will Out (1939 film), a 1939 British crime film starring Jack Hawkins
- The Voice of Merrill, 1952 British film released under this title in the U.S.
- "Murder Will Out", a sequence in the 1930 film revue Paramount on Parade
- Murder Will Out, original title of an English adaptation of the 1814 French play The Dog of Montarges
- Murder Will Out, an 1860 novel by Elizabeth Caroline Grey
- Murder Will Out, a 1932 mystery novel by Murray Leinster (as Will F. Jenkins)
- "Murder Will Out": The Detective in Fiction, a 1990 book by T. J. Binyon
Murder Will Out is a 1939 British crime film directed by Roy William Neill, starring John Loder, Jane Baxter and Jack Hawkins, and released by Warner Brothers.
The film is classed as "missing, believed lost" and is included on the British Film Institute's " 75 Most Wanted" list of missing British feature films.
Murder Will Out is a 1930 American Pre-Code mystery film with songs produced and released by First National Pictures and directed by Clarence G. Badger. The movie stars Jack Mulhall, Lila Lee and features Noah Beery and Malcolm McGregor. The film was based on the short story The Purple Hieroglyph by Murray Leinster writing as Will F. Jenkins, which was published in Snappy Stories on March 1, 1920.
Usage examples of "murder will out".
How a sane person can subscribe to that ancient hallucination that 'murder will out' is beyond me.
Many people, when they have gravely shaken their heads and said `Murder will out,' consider they have done a great deal and gone a long way towards settling the question.
As to the emotional basis of the hard-boiled story, obviously it does not believe that murder will out and justice will be done--unless some very determined individual makes it his business to see that justice is done.
Titles such as Murder Will Out, Winner Takes All, Thou Shalt Not Kill, and The Tables Turn will gain you no readers.