The Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.
- Date of release
- 1932-12-09
- TMDB
- 5.9 / 10 (19)
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Comedy, Mystery
- Director
- George Archainbaud
- Collection
- Hildegarde Withers Mystery Collection
Casting
- Edna May Oliver — Hildegarde Withers
- James Gleason — Police Insp. Oscar Piper
- Robert Armstrong — Barry Costello
- Mae Clarke — Gwen Parker
- Donald Cook — Philip Seymour
- Edgar Kennedy — Officer Donovan
- Clarence Wilson — Bertrand B. Hemingway
- James Donlan — Security Guard Fink
- Gustav von Seyffertitz — Von Donnen
- William Le Maire — MacDonald
- Joe Hermano — Chicago Lew
- Guy Usher — Parker
Interesting facts
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.
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