Skip to content

MovieRateCompare.

Top Genres My list

Data from IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic via OMDb. Letterboxd has no public API — data may be temporarily unavailable. Movie information by TMDB.

Afiche de The Penguin Pool Murder

Comedy · Mystery · 1932 · 1h 10min

The Penguin Pool Murder.

ComedyMystery

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.

Director: George Archainbaud

Top cast

Watch trailer

Gallery

Where to watch

Compared ratings

Your note

Your own scale, your own notes

Sign in and build your archive. The best notes get written right after the credits roll.

Sign in → top right

Production

Releases

Similar

The Penguin Pool Murder (1932) — MovieRate Compare · MovieRate Compare

Edna May Oliver

Edna May Oliver

Hildegarde Withers

James Gleason

Police Insp. Oscar Piper

Robert Armstrong

Robert Armstrong

Mae Clarke

Donald Cook

Edgar Kennedy

Officer Donovan

Studios

RKO Radio Pictures

RKO Radio Pictures

Country

🇺🇸United States of America

Languages

English

🇺🇸Estados UnidosDec 9, 1932

The Sheep Detectives
2026
A Shot in the Dark
1964
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994
Sherlock Jr.
1924
Black Angel
1946
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975
The Mirror Crack'd
1980
The Wrong Trousers
1993
The Pink Panther
2006
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988
Shadow of a Doubt
1943

IMDb

6.9 /10

2k votes

Rotten Tomatoes

The tomato isn't ripe

Metacritic

Metacritic took the day off

TMDB

5.9 /10

18 votes

Letterboxd

6.5 /10

—

Weighted average

6.5/10

IMDb6.9
TMDB5.9
Lbxd6.5

Penguin Pool Murder (Preview Clip)· Clip

Part of Hildegarde Withers Mystery Collection

Actual
The Penguin Pool Murder
1932
Murder on the Blackboard
1934
Murder on a Honeymoon
1935
Murder on a Bridle Path
1936
The Plot Thickens
1936
Forty Naughty Girls
1937

No streaming info for United States at the moment.