Busman's Honeymoon (1940)
When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...
Director:
Arthur B. Woods
Writers:
Harold Goldman, Monckton Hoffe, Angus MacPhail.
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Robert Montgomery as Lord Peter Wimsey |
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Constance Cummings as Harriet Vane |
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Leslie Banks as Inspector Kirk |
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Seymour Hicks as Mervyn Bunter (as Sir Seymour Hicks) |
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Robert Newton as Frank Crutchley |
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Googie Withers as Polly |
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Frank Pettingell as Puffett |
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Joan Kemp-Welch as Aggie Twitterton |
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Aubrey Mallalieu as Rev. Simon Goodacre |
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James Carney as Constable Sellon |
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Roy Emerton as Noakes |
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Louise Hampton as Mrs. Ruddle |
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Eliot Makeham as Simpson |
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Reginald Purdell as MacBride |
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Gwen Ffrangcon Davies as Woman (uncredited) |
| Camera | Freddie Young | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Louis Levy | Music |
| Editing | Al Barnes | Editor |
| Art | Alfred Junge | Art Direction |
| Production | Dora Wright | Production Manager |
| Production | Harold Huth | Associate Producer |
| Sound | A.W. Watkins | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | C. C. Stevens | Sound Recordist |
| Directing | Arthur B. Woods | Director |
| Writing | Harold Goldman | Screenplay |
| Writing | Monckton Hoffe | Screenplay |
| Writing | Angus MacPhail | Screenplay |
| Writing | Dorothy L. Sayers | Novel |
| Writing | Muriel St. Clare | Theatre Play |