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A dead body is discovered in the newly-purchased home of a gentleman sleuth and his mystery-novelist bride.A dead body is discovered in the newly-purchased home of a gentleman sleuth and his mystery-novelist bride.A dead body is discovered in the newly-purchased home of a gentleman sleuth and his mystery-novelist bride.
Seymour Hicks
- Bunter
- (as Sir Seymour Hicks)
Gwen Ffrangcon Davies
- Woman
- (uncredited)
Bryan Herbert
- Lorry Driver
- (uncredited)
Esma Lewis
- Ginette - Modiste
- (uncredited)
Gordon McLeod
- Inquest Doctor
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Arthur B. Woods
- Richard Thorpe(location) (uncredited)
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaFourth and final film made by MGM British Studios before it closed for the duration of WWII.
- GoofsThe housekeeper at Tallboys tells Lord Peter that Aggie lives at the "last house in the village, right-hand side." When Peter and Harriet pull up to the house, it's on the left.
- Quotes
Lord Peter Wimsey: What seems to be the trouble?
Insp. Andrew Kirk: We're reconstructing the crime.
Lord Peter Wimsey: From the noise we heard upstairs you're obviously going on the theory that Mr Noakes was killed by a herd of buffalo.
Mervyn Bunter: I'm afraid it's my fault, mylord... Inspector was Noakes and I was the assassin...
Lord Peter Wimsey: Apparently one of great brutality.
- ConnectionsReferenced in From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
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Boring Mix of Romance and Murder
Haunted Honeymoon (1940)
* 1/2 (out of 4)
British film from MGM has Lord Peter Wimsey (Robert Montgomery) marrying mystery writer Harriet Vane (Constance Cummings) but their honeymoon is very short as they investigate a murder together. If you look at the title and are expecting some sort of supernatural film then it's best to get that out of your mind. After viewing this film I started to look around and read some other reviews and it seems that the majority of them were negative, although very few were as negative as my thoughts on the film. To me this was one of those films where as soon as something happens it hits your eyes, travels to your brain and then your brain forgets what you just saw in the matter of seconds. I really can't remember too many films where what was going on was simply traveling past me simply because of how uninterested I was in anything going on. I think there are a couple major problems with this picture but the main one is Montgomery. There's no question that he was a fine actor but this here has to be one of his worst performances if not the worst. I think to say he was miscast would be an understatement because it's clear that he was just the wrong person for this part. Perhaps had the film stayed closer to its source material, the play Busman's Honeymoon, then the actor could have done more with it. This film version goes for more romantic charms than mystery and the actor just suffers the entire time. Cummings really isn't any better and the two lack any real chemistry. Another major problem is that the director just never makes anything interesting happen on the screen in terms of style, energy or anything else that you can think of. HAUNTED HONEYMOON is a real snoozer from start to finish.
* 1/2 (out of 4)
British film from MGM has Lord Peter Wimsey (Robert Montgomery) marrying mystery writer Harriet Vane (Constance Cummings) but their honeymoon is very short as they investigate a murder together. If you look at the title and are expecting some sort of supernatural film then it's best to get that out of your mind. After viewing this film I started to look around and read some other reviews and it seems that the majority of them were negative, although very few were as negative as my thoughts on the film. To me this was one of those films where as soon as something happens it hits your eyes, travels to your brain and then your brain forgets what you just saw in the matter of seconds. I really can't remember too many films where what was going on was simply traveling past me simply because of how uninterested I was in anything going on. I think there are a couple major problems with this picture but the main one is Montgomery. There's no question that he was a fine actor but this here has to be one of his worst performances if not the worst. I think to say he was miscast would be an understatement because it's clear that he was just the wrong person for this part. Perhaps had the film stayed closer to its source material, the play Busman's Honeymoon, then the actor could have done more with it. This film version goes for more romantic charms than mystery and the actor just suffers the entire time. Cummings really isn't any better and the two lack any real chemistry. Another major problem is that the director just never makes anything interesting happen on the screen in terms of style, energy or anything else that you can think of. HAUNTED HONEYMOON is a real snoozer from start to finish.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Jul 2, 2012
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- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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