Murder on a Honeymoon

1935
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1h 14m

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James Gleason and Edna May Oliver in Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)

A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a sea-plane gets sick and dies.A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a sea-plane gets sick and dies.A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a sea-plane gets sick and dies.

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6.7/10

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Trivia
The plane at the beginning of the film flying to Catalina is a Douglas Dolphin 114, registration NC14204. It was one of four airplanes in the Wilmington-Catalina Airlines fleet at the time. It was handed over to the Army in September 1942 and subsequently shipped to Australia. On July 29, 1943 it crashed at Rose Bay, NSW, Australia and was stripped for parts. Only 58 of all variants of the Dolphin were made. The plane was also used in Sur le velours (1935). Another Dolphin, registration NC967Y is seen at the seaplane ramp on Santa Catalina Island when the group first arrives. That plane was also in Fog Over Frisco (1934).

Goofs
A shoe with a "K" carved on the heel would leave an impression with the "K" reversed. The "K" in the heel print is not reversed.

Quotes
Oscar Piper: So that's your system?
Hildegarde Withers: Can you suggest a better one?
Oscar Piper: I suggest using your head a little.
Hildegarde Withers: That'd be nice work for you, Oscar, if you could get it.
Hildegarde Withers: Uuuhhh!

Connections
Followed by Le Mystère de l'allée Cavalière (1936)

Soundtracks
The Wedding March
(uncredited)
Written by Felix Mendelssohn
Hummed by Brooks Benedict

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7/10

Can't Get Away From Murder

Murder On A Honeymoon finds Edna May Oliver on holiday to Catalina Island where on the small plane she's traveling on, a witness in a mob case from New York is poisoned. The case piques the interest of Oliver's old friend Inspector James Gleason of the NYPD for him to come out and help the Catalina PD.

In these three films Edna May is a virtual stand-in for Agatha Christie's Miss Jane Marple who is constantly making fools of the police wherever they may be. But she and Gleason have a really effective chemistry in the three films they did. Sad to say Edna May did not want to continue the series. She and Gleason would have been a great weekly series in the age of television.

Murder On A Honeymoon may have been the best of the three films because based on the other two, I thought I had the perpetrator all picked out. But I was completely wrong and I think other viewers will fall in the same trap. Two other murders occur before Gleason and Oliver finally figure it out. By the way the clue here is in how the crime was committed. And a big red herring is also served up for the audience to convince you of the perpetrator's apparent innocence.

Even on vacation it seems as though Edna May's Hildegarde Withers can't get away from murder.