The Penguin Pool Murder
1932•1h 10m•5.9/10
ComedyMystery
Ratings
🎬TMDb
5.9/10(19)
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.
Production
RKO Radio Pictures
Language
EN
Status
Released
Release Date
Available in Your Library
Cast
Edna May Oliver
Hildegarde Withers
James Gleason
Police Insp. Oscar Piper
Robert Armstrong
Barry Costello
Mae Clarke
Gwen Parker
Donald Cook
Philip Seymour
Edgar Kennedy
Officer Donovan
Clarence Wilson
Bertrand B. Hemingway
James Donlan
Security Guard Fink
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Von Donnen
William Le Maire
MacDonald
Joe Hermano
Chicago Lew
Guy Usher
Parker
Rochelle Hudson
Telephone Operator
Wilfrid North
Judge
A.S. Byron
Jailer Strauss (uncredited)
Edith Fellows
Little Girl at Aquarium (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
Jack, Policeman (uncredited)
Mary Mason
Parker's Secretary (uncredited)
Sidney Miller
Isadore Marks (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
Purse Snatching Victim at Aquarium (uncredited)
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