Busman's Honeymoon (film)

Busman's Honeymoon
Directed by	Arthur B. Woods
Produced by	Harold Huth Ben Goetz
Screenplay by	Monckton Hoffe Angus MacPhail Harold Goldman
Based on	the play Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers & Muriel St. Clare Byrne
Starring	Robert Montgomery Constance Cummings Leslie Banks Sir Seymour Hicks
Music by	Louis Levy Charles Williams (uncredited)
Cinematography	Freddie Young
Edited by	Al Barnes James B. Clark
Production company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	22 July 1940 (1940-07-22) (London) (UK)
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Busman's Honeymoon is a 1940 British detective film directed by Arthur B. Woods. An adaptation of the Lord Peter Wimsey story Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers, it starred Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks, Googie Withers, Robert Newton and Seymour Hicks as Mervyn Bunter. Newly married famous amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey (Montgomery) and his wife, mystery writer Harriet Vane (Cummings), are looking forward to a quiet honeymoon at their new country cottage when they are reluctantly drawn into the investigation of a local murder. The film premiered in London in July 1940. It was released in the U.S. as Haunted Honeymoon.

Cast

• Lord Peter Wimsey - Robert Montgomery
• Harriet Vane - Constance Cummings
• Mervyn Bunter - Seymour Hicks
• Inspector Kirz - Leslie Banks
• Frank Crutchley - Robert Newton
• Polly - Googie Withers
• William George Puffett, The Sweep - Frank Pettingell
• Aggie Twitterton - Joan Kemp-Welch
• Reverend Simon Goodacre - Aubrey Mallalieu
• Constable Tom Sellon - James Carney
• Noakes - Roy Emerton
• Mrs. Doris Ruddle - Louise Hampton
• Simpson - Eliot Makeham
• MacBride - Reginald Purdell
• The Doctor - Allan Whittaker
• Town Inspector - Ben Williams

Critical reception

Britmovie wrote, "Americans Robert Montgomery and Constance Cummings aroused some national indignation when cast as such the essentially British sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and his crime-writing bride Harriet Vane but they acquitted themselves satisfactorily, even though some of their thunder is stolen by a particularly colourful supporting cast that includes a morose Robert Newton, Seymour Hicks resourceful butler, Leslie Banks and Googie Withers"; and Bosley Crowther in The New York Times wrote, "Seldom has there been a film so pleasantly conducive to browsing as this leisurely, bookish fable of murder...A glass of port, at least, should be taken along with it."

External links

• Busman's Honeymoon at IMDb