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:
Angus MacPhail, Harold Goldman, Monckton Hoffe.
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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) |
| Sound | Louis Levy | Music |
| Camera | Freddie Young | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Al Barnes | Editor |
| Production | Harold Huth | Associate Producer |
| Sound | A.W. Watkins | Sound Recordist |
| Production | Dora Wright | Production Manager |
| Sound | C. C. Stevens | Sound Recordist |
| Art | Alfred Junge | Art Direction |
| Directing | Arthur B. Woods | Director |
| Writing | Angus MacPhail | Screenplay |
| Writing | Harold Goldman | Screenplay |
| Writing | Monckton Hoffe | Screenplay |
| Writing | Dorothy L. Sayers | Novel |
| Writing | Muriel St. Clare | Theatre Play |