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Penguin Pool Murder is a american film of genre Drama directed by George Archainbaud released in USA on 9 december 1932 with Edna May Oliver

Penguin Pool Murder (1932)

Penguin Pool Murder
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Released in USA 9 december 1932
Length 1h10
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy thriller,    Crime,    Romance
Rating68% 3.443233.443233.443233.443233.44323

The Penguin Pool Murder is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy/mystery film starring Edna May Oliver as Hildegarde Withers, a witness in a murder case at the New York Aquarium, with James Gleason as the police inspector in charge of the case, who investigates with her unwanted help, and Robert Armstrong as an attorney representing Mae Clarke, the wife of the victim. Oliver's appearance was the first film appearance of the character of Hildegarde Withers, the schoolteacher and sleuth based on the character from the 1931 novel The Penguin Pool Murder by Stuart Palmer. It is the first in a trilogy including Murder on the Blackboard, and Murder on a Honeymoon, in which Oliver and Gleason team up for the lead roles.

Synopsis

Gwen Parker (Mae Clarke) meets her former boyfriend Philip Seymour (Donald Cook) at the local aquarium and asks him for some money so she can leave her husband, stockbroker Gerald Parker. However, Mr. Parker receives an anonymous telephone call tipping him off to the rendezvous. When he confronts the pair, Seymour knocks him out with a punch. As there are no witnesses to the altercation, he hides the unconscious man in the room behind an exhibit.

Actors

Edna May Oliver

(Miss Hildegarde Martha Withers)Robert Armstrong

(Barry Costello)James Gleason

(Police Inspector Oscar Piper)Donald Cook

(Philip Seymour)Mae Clarke

(Gwen Parker)
And :
Edgar Kennedy
Clarence Wilson
James Donlan
Gustav von Seyffertitz
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