Busmans Honeymoon (film)
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Director Arthur B. Woods Duration Country United Kingdom | 6.2/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama, Mystery Running time 1h 39m Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 22 July 1940 (1940-07-22) Based on Busmans Honeymoon
by Dorothy L. Sayers Writer Monckton Hoffe (screen play), Angus MacPhail (screen play), Harold Goldman (screen play), Dorothy L. Sayers (based on: the novel "Busmans Honeymoon" by), Dorothy L. Sayers (and the play by), Muriel St. Clare (and the play by) Initial release July 22, 1940 (United Kingdom) Directors Arthur B. Woods, Richard Thorpe Music director Louis Levy, Charles Williams Screenplay Angus MacPhail, Leonard Strong, Monckton Hoffe, Harold Goldman Cast Robert Montgomery (Lord Peter Wimsey), Constance Cummings (Harriet Vane), Leslie Banks (Inspector Kirk), Seymour Hicks (Bunter (as Sir Seymour Hicks)), Robert Newton (Frank Crutchley), Googie Withers (Polly)Similar movies Taken 3 , Mad Max: Fury Road , Irreversible , Brooklyn's Finest , I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance is Mine , Sea of Love Tagline Mystery thrills in a LOVE NEST! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Busman s honeymoon 1937
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, Busman's Honeymoon stars Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks, Googie Withers, Robert Newton and Seymour Hicks as Mervyn Bunter.
Contents
The plot revolves around newly married famous amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey (Montgomery) and his wife, mystery writer Harriet Vane (Cummings), who are looking forward to a quiet honeymoon at their new country cottage when they are reluctantly drawn into the investigation of a local murder. Busman's Honeymoon premiered in London in July 1940 and was released in the U.S. as Haunted Honeymoon in September 1940.
Production
Location shooting on Busman's Honeymoon began 4 August 1939 with Richard Thorpe as the original director. After the outbreak of the Second World War, the film was "shelved" until March 1940 with Arthur B. Woods appointed as director. Principal photography took place from 21 March to mid-April 1940 at Denham Studios, as well as other locations in England.
Critical reception
Film critic Bosley Crowther in his review of Haunted Honeymoon, wrote in The New York Times, "Seldom has there been a film so pleasantly conducive to browsing as this leisurely, bookish fable of murder in Devonshire; not of late has there been one so steeped in the genteel tradition of British crime literature. A glass of port, at least, should be taken along with it."
In a more recent review, 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".
References
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