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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 ...
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.
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- Comedy, Drama, Mystery
- George Archainbaud
- 1932-12-09
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers (Edna May Oliver) assists a detective (James Gleason) with an aquarium corpse.
- Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
Teaming up with the investigating police officer, the cigar-chomping Inspector Piper, Miss Withers proves herself more than his equal in ferreting out the facts of the case and the identity of the murder. The Penguin Pool Murder reminds one of the filmed version of Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man or a Noël Coward play.
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May 14, 2013 · The mystery is baffling, the killer dangerous, but for a woman who can control a gaggle of noisy third graders, murder isn’t frightening at all. The Penguin Pool Murder is part of the Hildegarde Withers Mysteries series, which also includes Murder on the Blackboard and Murder on Wheels.
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- Stuart Palmer
Penguin Pool Murder, The - (Original Trailer) A feisty school teacher (Edna May Oliver) sets out to solve a murder in an aquarium in 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.
