

The Penguin Pool Murder
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.
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- Language
- English
- infidelity
- pickpocket
- aquarium
- homicide
- amateur detective
- deaf-mute
- penguin
- murder
- stockbroker
- pre-code
- police investigation
- murder investigation
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- TheatricalNR9 Dec 1932
- PhysicalNRDVD23 Jul 2013
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The Penguin Pool Murder was released on 9 December 1932.
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CinemaSerf
12/3/2023
There is something Marple-esque about Edna May Oliver's portrayal of the meticulous, no-nonsense, schoolteacher "Miss Withers". There's also something hideous about some of the fish in the aquarium where the police discover the corpse of the pretty universally disliked "Parker". It turns out that his wife (Mae Clarke) has a boyfriend (Donald Cook), and that both were present at the time of death. Looks like a bit of …
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