Busman's Honeymoon (1940)

Directed by

Arthur B. Woods

Genre

crime film, comedy drama, detective film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 39m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A newlywed detective and his bride find a dead body in the cellar of their country cottage on their wedding night. He investigates the murder among the local villagers while trying to keep his honeymoon from being completely ruined.

light-heartedcozywittymildly suspensefulcharmingtalkydatedwhimsical

What happens

Busman's Honeymoon (US: Haunted Honeymoon) is a 1940 British detective film directed by Arthur B. Woods. An adaptation of the 1937 Lord Peter Wimsey novel 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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