Murder on the Blackboard

  • Comedy
  • Mystery
  • Thriller
6/15/1934
71
NR

Storyline

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.

Director:
George Archainbaud
Writer:
Willis Goldbeck
    • fire escape
    • homicide
    • amateur detective
    • music teacher
    • anemia
    • basement
    • murder
    • janitor
    • alcoholic
    • ex-con
    • pre-code
    • police investigation
    • blackboard
    • schoolteacher
    • schoolhouse
    • police inspector
    • secret marriage
    • lottery ticket
    • amateur sleuth
    • poisoning
    • blow to the head

    Cast

    • Edna May Oliver
      Hildegarde Withers
    • James Gleason
      Police Insp. Oscar Piper
    • Bruce Cabot
      Stevens
    • Gertrude Michael
      Jane Davis
    • Regis Toomey
      Detective Smiley North
    • Edgar Kennedy
      Detective Donahue
    • Tully Marshall
      MacFarland
    • Jackie Searl
      Leland
    • Frederick Vogeding
      Otto (as Fredrik Vogeding)
    • Barbara Fritchie
      Louise
    • Gustav von Seyffertitz
      Dr. Von Immen
    • Tom Herbert
      Detective McTeague
    • Jed Prouty
      Dr. Levine
    • Wade Boteler
      Bearded Diner (Uncredited)
    • Tommy Bupp
      School Boy (uncredited)
    • Frank Mills
      Diner Counterman (uncredited)

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