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Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
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15 June 1934 (USA) morePlot:
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Edna May Oliver - Super Sleuth moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Edna May Oliver | ... | Hildegarde Withers | |
| James Gleason | ... | Inspector Oscar Piper | |
| Bruce Cabot | ... | Addison 'Ad' Stevens | |
| Gertrude Michael | ... | Jane Davis | |
| Regis Toomey | ... | Detective Smiley North | |
| Tully Marshall | ... | Mr. MacFarland | |
| Frederick Vogeding | ... | Otto Schweitzer, the Janitor (as Fredrik Vogeding) | |
| Edgar Kennedy | ... | Detective Donahue | |
| Jackie Searl | ... | Leland Stanford Jones | |
| Barbara Fritchie | ... | Louise Halloran | |
| Gustav von Seyffertitz | ... | Dr. Max Von Immen | |
| Tom Herbert | ... | Detective McTeague | |
| Jed Prouty | ... | Dr. Levine |
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (RCA Victor System)Fun Stuff
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Continuity: Two wide-mouthed bottles appear out of nowhere on Miss Halloran's desk as Miss Withers searches it. moreQuotes:
[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.
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This was the second of 3 films Edna May Oliver made at RKO starring as that indomitable school teacher/sleuth, Miss Hildegarde Withers. As always, Miss Oliver steals the show, sticks it in her handbag and walks off with it.
This time she attempts to track down a murderer right in her own New York City school. With her gimlet eye & no-nonsense manner, the killer never really stands a chance.
Miss Oliver, as always, is a joy to watch. James Gleason returns as the harried police detective Oscar Piper, now Hildegarde's boyfriend. Also on hand are Edgar Kennedy, Bruce Cabot & Tully Marshall. But, as in the other Withers films, Edna May is the real reason to watch.