Una joven profesora de música es encontrada muerta en la escuela de Hildegard. Las notas musicales en la pizarra son la única pista para resolver el caso.Una joven profesora de música es encontrada muerta en la escuela de Hildegard. Las notas musicales en la pizarra son la única pista para resolver el caso.Una joven profesora de música es encontrada muerta en la escuela de Hildegard. Las notas musicales en la pizarra son la única pista para resolver el caso.
- Dirección
- Guionistas
- Elenco
- Premios
- 1 premio ganado en total
- Otto Schweitzer - Janitor
- (as Fredrik Vogeding)
- Bearded Diner
- (sin créditos)
- School Boy
- (sin créditos)
- Diner Counterman
- (sin créditos)
- Policeman
- (sin créditos)
- Dirección
- Guionistas
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Opiniones destacadas
One problem for viewers might be the C&C Movietime version of this film. That version has the first half-hour cut out, which saves time but butchers the narrative. Those who pick up the thread with Oliver's character searching for the body are missing about thirty minutes of important exposition.
Regardless of the editing, this is an amusing comic murder mystery deserving of your attention.
One of the teachers at Edna's school, Barbara Fritchie, winds up very dead and she's quite the lively corpse as the perpetrator keeps moving the body in an effort to be rid of it. In fact the only way the crime is discovered is because that day Edna kept young Jackie Searle after school.
Unlike the Thin Man movies where you could have as many as ten suspects or more in a room as Nick and Nora reveal all, this is not MGM with their lavish productions. This is RKO and this studio had a limited budget for their films. We only have four suspects so your chances of guessing who did it increase quite a bit.
Edgar Kennedy as the dumb cop who gets clunked on the head and develops amnesia is his usual funny self. In fact he's the foil used to catch the murderer in the end. As for the end, I found it a bit melodramatic for my taste and let it go at that.
But for fans of the wonderful Edna May Oliver and the dependable James Gleason this film is a must.
This time the amateur sleuth helps solve a case involving a murdered music teacher and gets herself into deep trouble with the killer who means business when he tries to throw an axe at her in a dark basement cellar. Edna May's brisk, no nonsense manner fits the character of Hildegarde Withers to perfection and she's never at a loss for a quick retort when Gleason becomes a bit overbearing. Their game of one-up-man-ship is what keeps the story moving briskly to a satisfying conclusion.
The fact that it's terribly dated in dialogue and situations is what gives this little mystery a quaint sort of charm. One of the better in a series of Hildegarde Withers murder mysteries.
*** (out of 4)
The second of six films in RKO's Hildegarde Withers (Edna May Oliver) series has the wannabe detective working at a school when a music teacher is shot dead. Inspector Oscar Piper (James Gleason) is soon helping on the case, which features the usual suspects including one played by Bruce Cabot. I've got the first film in the series, Penguin Pool Murder, recorded but haven't watched it yet so this is the first film from the series that I've actually watched. There's nothing overly special about this film but it does stand apart from the countless other mystery films of the decade. For one, Edna May Oliver plays her role pretty well and while it's somewhat over the top she never goes way past that line to where the character becomes obnoxious. She manages to bring a few laughs to the film and keeps the film going throughout. The actual mystery is also done pretty well with some nice atmosphere trapped in the small school.
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- TriviaEdna May Oliver was forced to take a salary cut, as were other RKO contractees, for austerity reasons when she worked on this film.
- ErroresTwo wide-mouthed bottles appear out of nowhere on Miss Halloran's desk after Miss Withers searches it and finds the liquor.
- Citas
[last lines]
Oscar Piper: ...A fella could come up and see ya some time couldn't he?
Hildegarde Withers: Why, Oscar Piper!
[Oscar laughs]
Hildegarde Withers: Why, you dreadful man! You get out of here. Go on, get out!
[He leaves the diner, laughing heartily, as Hildegarde smoothes her ruffled feathers]
Hildegarde Withers: Insulted at my age!
Bearded Diner: Better late than never, sister.
Hildegarde Withers: [haughtily] That will do.
- ConexionesFollowed by Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)
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- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Idioma
- También se conoce como
- Stegen som tystnade
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- Tiempo de ejecución
- 1h 11min(71 min)
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.37 : 1