The Penguin Pool Murder (1932) (original) (raw)
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers' field trip to the Battery Park Aquarium is interrupted by murder in this pre-code first entry in the comedy/mystery serial. Meeting Police Inspector Piper and setting a template that would be followed by Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Murder She Wrote's Jessica Fletcher, the feisty pair match wits backstairs at the Manhattan landmark, in the holding cells at "the tombs" and in Withers' breakfast room as she presses him to look past the obvious suspects�the faithless young widow, the client who lost everything�and find out how the crooked stock broker ...(more)
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers' field trip to the Battery Park Aquarium is interrupted by murder in this pre-code first entry in the comedy/mystery serial. Meeting Police Inspector Piper and setting a template that would be followed by Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Murder She Wrote's Jessica Fletcher, the feisty pair match wits backstairs at the Manhattan landmark, in the holding cells at "the tombs" and in Withers' breakfast room as she presses him to look past the obvious suspects�the faithless young widow, the client who lost everything�and find out how the crooked stock broker really wound up face-down in the penguin tank. (less)
Director: George Archainbaud
Writers: Willis Goldbeck, Stuart Palmer, Lowell Brentano
Starring: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong, Mae Clarke, Donald Cook, Edgar Kennedy
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