HAUNTED HONEYMOON (1940) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Arthur B. Woods
Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks,
Seymour Hicks, Robert Newton, Googie Withers
Lord Peter Wimsey (Robert Montgomery) buys an old country house as a gift for his bride (Constance Cummings), so what happens? The man he buys the house from turns up murdered. Not only that, but Lord and Lady Wimsey have sworn a mutual oath not to get involved in any more detective work. The mystery part of the story almost doesn't matter in this one. There are long stretches of the film where it disappears entirely, and nobody seems to care. Which makes you wonder: Suppose they made a movie like this where somebody gets murdered and the crime just never gets solved. Has anybody ever done that? And if not, how come?
