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The Plot Thickens (film)

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The Plot Thickens
The Swinging Pearl Mystery
Directed byBen Holmes
Screenplay byJack Townley
Clarence Upson Young
Based onThe Riddle of the Dangling Pearl
1932 story
by Stuart Palmer
Produced bySamuel J. Briskin
William Sistrom
StarringJames Gleason
ZaSu Pitts
Owen Davis, Jr.
CinematographyNicholas Musuraca
Edited byJohn Lockert
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • December 11, 1936 (1936-12-11)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Plot Thickens is a 1936 American mystery film directed by Ben Holmes starring James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts and Louise Latimer.[1] Pitts plays the schoolteacher and amateur sleuth Hildegarde Withers from Stuart Palmer's stories. Gleason reprised his role as Hildegarde's friendly nemesis, Inspector Oscar Piper, from RKO Radio Pictures' previous Hildegarde Withers films.

Plot

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Hildegarde Withers is a novelist who now tries to figure out the connection between two unrelated murders. Inspector Oscar Piper, is Hildegarde's friendly nemesis.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "The Plot Thickens". afi.com. Retrieved 2024-02-11.
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