Angry stockbroker confronts his wife (Mae Clarke) and her former boyfriend (Donald Cook) at an aquarium. Also at the aquarium is teacher Hildegarde Withers (Edna May Oliver) with her class on a field trip. As Withers is looking into a penguin pool, the stockbroker's corpse comes floating by. Soon, police Inspector Oscar Piper (James Gleason) is on the case. Throughout the movie Withers helps Piper with his case and the two banter back and forth. Oliver and Gleason are delightful to watch. They have great comedic chemistry. Fun start to a brief detective series featuring the character of Hildegarde Withers and her beau Inspector Piper. There were only six films in the series, with Oliver playing the part of Withers in the first three films. Gleason would play Piper in all six. They were all generally fun films with doses of comedy mixed in with the murder mysteries. But the Oliver ones were the best.
Review of Penguin Pool Murder
