That's Not the Way to Die

{{short description|1946 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = That's Not the Way to Die

| image = File:That's Not the Way to Die.jpg

| caption =

| director = Jean Boyer

| producer = Ernst Neubach
Robert Tarcali

| based_on = {{based on|The Death Kiss
plot from 1933 film|Edwin L. Marin}}

| writer = Ernst Neubach
André Tabet

| starring = Erich von Stroheim
Anne-Marie Blanc
Denise Vernac

| music = Joe Hajos

| cinematography = Walter Wottitz

| editing = Yvonne Martin

| studio = Astra Paris Films

| distributor = Astra Paris Films

| released = {{Film date|1946|07|03|df=yes}}

| runtime = 95 minutes

| country = France

| language = French

| budget =

| gross =

}}

That's Not the Way to Die (French: On ne meurt pas comme ça) is a 1946 French mystery crime film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Erich von Stroheim, Anne-Marie Blanc and Denise Vernac.{{Cite book |last=Lennig |first=Arthur |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HVHg3VOmGL4C |title=Stroheim |date=2003-04-18 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-9044-0 |pages=440–441}} The film's sets were designed by the art director Aimé Bazin. It borrows its main plot device from the 1932 American film The Death Kiss. von Stroheim was not happy with the film, but felt it received good reviews and was popular with audiences.

Synopsis

At a film studios while shooting a scene in which a man is killed, director Eric von Berg angrily calls cuts and rebukes the actor and shouts "That's Not the Way to Die". However, the actor soon turns out to be really dead, murdered by somebody present.

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