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...
Cast
Robert Montgomery
Lord Peter Wimsey
Constance Cummings
Harriet Vane
Leslie Banks
Inspector Kirk
Seymour Hicks
Mervyn Bunter (as Sir Seymour Hicks)
Robert Newton
Frank Crutchley
Googie Withers
Polly
Frank Pettingell
Puffett
Joan Kemp-Welch
Aggie Twitterton
Aubrey Mallalieu
Rev. Simon Goodacre
James Carney
Constable Sellon
Roy Emerton
Noakes
Louise Hampton
Mrs. Ruddle
Eliot Makeham
Simpson
Reginald Purdell
MacBride
Gwen Ffrangcon Davies
Woman (uncredited)
Crew
Arthur B. Woods
Director
Harold Goldman
Screenplay
Monckton Hoffe
Screenplay
Angus MacPhail
Screenplay
Dorothy L. Sayers
Novel
Al Barnes
Editor
Freddie Young
Director of Photography
Harold Huth
Associate Producer
A.W. Watkins
Sound Recordist
C. C. Stevens
Sound Recordist
Louis Levy
Music
Dora Wright
Production Manager
Muriel St. Clare
Theatre Play
Alfred Junge
Art Direction
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