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- The mystery that follows is good enough without being particularly dazzling, but that's less the selling point than the clever characters, the unusual leads, and the bright dialogue.
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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 ...
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It is about abusive husband Gerald Parker who is found dead in the penguin pool of a NYC aquarium. Edna May Oliver and Robert Armstrong give excellent performances. The screenplay is well...
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- George Archainbaud
- Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
- Edna May Oliver
Penguin Pool Murder from 1932 stars Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Mae Clarke, and Donald Cook. It's a B movie, the first of the Hildegarde Withers series. While Miss Withers is with her students at the aquarium, the body of a stockbroker, Gerald Parker, is found in the penguin tank.
Jun 19, 2013 · The mystery is reasonable to good. There are some very interesting ideas going on which appear mostly in the second half of the book – so do keep reading. The second murder, in particular, is the cleverest part of the plot – although it does appear quite late in the narrative.
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Gerald Parker(Guy Usher) – A stockbroker at the outset of The Great Depression (great shorthand for ‘shady jerk’), Gerald has recently doled out bad financial advice and is ignoring phone calls from anyone who’s upset by it. Furthermore he’s married to Gwen, a former dancer who has obviously lost that loving feeling. The revelation that she’s been ...
Gwen Parker, the Unfaithful Wife(Mae Clarke) – A showgirl with too many problems, Gwen needs $5,000 to help pay back a bad investment. She seeks out Philip to help her out, but, after he knocks Gerald out cold, the opportunity to be rid of her cruel husband may be too tempting to pass up. Philip Seymour, The Lover (Donald Cook) – An office worker w...
Hildegarde Martha Withers enters The Penguin Pool Murder at the eight minute mark when she trips a purse thief with her umbrella. She is quickly surrounded by a gaggle of children—black, white, Asian, Jewish, all in one set of disheveled school uniforms or another. She brushes off her umbrella from its mere collision with a criminal. “There, childr...
Filmed between September and October of 1932 and released in December. It would be one of RKO’s biggest hits of the year.
Penguin Pool Murder: Directed by George Archainbaud. With Edna May Oliver, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, Mae Clarke. Shady stockbroker and abusive husband Gerald Parker is found dead in the penguin pool of a NYC aquarium after being knocked cold by his wife's boyfriend.
Jan 17, 2023 · The Penguin Pool Murder (An American Mystery Classic) Hardcover – January 17, 2023. In this classic whodunnit, crime-solving teacher Hildegarde Withers discovers a dead body while on a trip to the New York Aquarium with her third-grade class.
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