Murder on a Honeymoon

Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)

Shiver and shake while you giggle and quake!

An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.

Date of release
1935-02-22
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 14m
Genres
Mystery, Comedy
Director
Lloyd Corrigan
Collection
Hildegarde Withers Mystery Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Murder on a Honeymoon is a 1935 American mystery film starring Edna May Oliver and James Gleason. This was the third and last time Oliver portrayed astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers; the two previous films were The Penguin Pool Murder (1932) and Murder on the Blackboard (1934). The film was directed by Lloyd Corrigan from a screenplay by Seton I. Miller and Robert Benchley based on the 1933 novel The Puzzle of the Pepper Tree by Stuart Palmer. Palmer's novel, however, did not include Inspector Piper, and has Withers doing the investigating on her own.

Production

The working title for Murder on a Honeymoon was Puzzle of the Pepper Tree, which was the title of the 1933 Stuart Palmer novel on which it was based.

Some scenes for the film were shot on Santa Catalina Island, a well-known resort 26 miles off the California coast.

A Douglas Dolphin twin-engine flying boat appears early in the movie; the characters fly on it to get to Catalina Island, and the (first) murder takes place on it.

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