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24 September 1937 (USA) moreTagline:
The screen's funniest sleuth and sleuthess...on the trail of another crime!Plot:
Oilice Inspector Oscar Piper and Hildegared Withers attend the opening night of a Broadway play in New York City... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Twenty Out of Forty moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| James Gleason | ... | Inspector Oscar Piper | |
| Zasu Pitts | ... | Hildegarde Withers | |
| Marjorie Lord | ... | June Preston | |
| George Shelley | ... | Bert | |
| Joan Woodbury | ... | Rita Marlowe | |
| Frank M. Thomas | ... | Jeff 'Pop' Plummer | |
| Tom Kennedy | ... | Detective Casey | |
| Alan Edwards | ... | Ricky Rickman | |
| Alden 'Stephen' Chase | ... | Tommy Washburn (as Alden Chase) | |
| Eddie Marr | ... | Edward C. 'Windy' Bennett (as Edward Marr) | |
| Ada Leonard | ... | Lil - Showgirl | |
| Barbara Pepper | ... | Alice - Showgirl |
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Mono (RCA Victor System)Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #3562) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)Fun Stuff
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Two actresses played schoolteacher/amateur investigator Hildegarde Winters in the RKO B series based on the novels of Stuart Palmer: Zasu Pitts and Edna May Oliver. The inimitable, irascible James Gleason played her fiancé, Oscar Piper in all the movies.
Both actresses were sterling comedians, although of highly different types. In this movie we have Oscar investigating a murder backstage, while Hildegarde Winters does all the real work.
Unfortunately, neither story nor actors are well served in this particular outing. Comedy directing great Eddie Cline doesn't seem to have allowed Miss Pitts nor supporting comic Tom Kennedy the time they needed for their slow-take comedy.
Instead, we have Piper arresting people for the murders, being persuaded he was wrong, and then on to the next suspect. Perhaps Cline simply did not care. In any case, the result is unremarkable.