Busman's Honeymoon

Busman's Honeymoon

83 mins | Drama, Comedy, Mystery | July 22, 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...

Busman's Honeymoon

83 mins | Drama, Comedy, Mystery | July 22, 1940

Busman's Honeymoon
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...
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Busman's Honeymoon
Directors Arthur B. Woods
Writers Muriel St. Clare, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy L. Sayers, Monckton Hoffe, Harold Goldman, Angus MacPhail

Cast

Robert Montgomery

as Lord Peter Wimsey

Constance Cummings

as Harriet Vane

Leslie Banks

as Inspector Kirk

Seymour Hicks

as Mervyn Bunter (as Sir Seymour Hicks)

Robert Newton

as Frank Crutchley

Googie Withers

as Polly

Frank Pettingell

as Puffett

Joan Kemp-Welch

as Aggie Twitterton

Aubrey Mallalieu

as Rev. Simon Goodacre

James Carney

as Constable Sellon

Roy Emerton

as Noakes

Louise Hampton

as Mrs. Ruddle

Eliot Makeham

as Simpson

Reginald Purdell

as MacBride

Gwen Ffrangcon Davies

as Woman (uncredited)