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Anyone know how to get a copy of Penguin Pool Murder on DVD?

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I know how you can get it and Murder on a Honeymoon, but I don't know if I can give out website addresses in this forum. I haven't read all the terms & conditions yet.

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Hello;
Please advise me as to where I could purchase the first 3 of these movies, Pennguin, Blackboard and Honeymoon in DVD format.
Thanks very much!
Matt Jacobs, Downers Grove, IL
[email protected]

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Not sure. I would like to see it to.

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It was released on laserdisc, where I got my copy. TCM shows the movie very infrequently.

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Has anyone tried some of those "new" sites? -- Ioffer, Bonanzle, Ebid...etc? Lots of odd stuff there.

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You mean lots of pirated stuff. Those sites are rife with bootleggers. Just get a subscription to Turner Classic Movies; this and several of the other films in this series turn up there fairly regularly.

And no, this was NEVER on laserdisc. That may be what some bootlegger told you, as a way to justify his supposed source, but that's complete nonsense. None of these films have ever been available in any (legit) home video format. At least, not yet...

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And no, this was NEVER on laserdisc. That may be what some bootlegger told you, as a way to justify his supposed source, but that's complete nonsense. None of these films have ever been available in any (legit) home video format. At least, not yet...


From the Laserdisc Database:
http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/03666/ID7053TU/Penguin-Pool-Murder-%2819 32%29

From a Google search (with cover image):
http://www.laserdiscvault.com/Laserdiscs-Not-on-DVD/Previously-Viewed/ Penguin-Pool-Murder-Laserdisc-1932-ID7053TU

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This movie was just on TCM this past Wed 10/3. At one time they were showing all of them 2 or 3 times a year on consecutive Saturdays. Now you get one every once in awhile. The first 3 films in the series with Edna May Oliver playing Hildegarde Withers are the most enjoyable ones.

Penguin Pool Murder (1932), portrayed by Edna May Oliver
Murder on the Blackboard (1934), starring Oliver
Murder on a Honeymoon (1935), featuring Oliver (based on The Puzzle of the Pepper Tree, 1934)


TCM has also shown the first 2 films listed below. I've never seen the last 2 on the channel.

Murder on a Bridle Path (1936), with Helen Broderick
The Plot Thickens (1936), played by ZaSu Pitts
Forty Naughty Girls (1937), with Pitts
A Very Missing Person (1972), featuring Eve Arden


Just for the record, I'm not a Dude, I'm a Dudette!

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Warner Archive has a DVD of the entire collection:

http://www.amazon.com/Hildegarde-Withers-Mysteries-Movies-Collection/dp/B00E44EZUE/

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