There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.
Cast
Edna May Oliver
Hildegarde Withers
James Gleason
Police Insp. Oscar Piper
Bruce Cabot
Stevens
Gertrude Michael
Jane Davis
Regis Toomey
Detective Smiley North
Edgar Kennedy
Detective Donahue
Tully Marshall
MacFarland
Jackie Searl
Leland
Frederick Vogeding
Otto (as Fredrik Vogeding)
Barbara Fritchie
Louise
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Dr. Von Immen
Tom Herbert
Detective McTeague
Jed Prouty
Dr. Levine
Wade Boteler
Bearded Diner (Uncredited)
Tommy Bupp
School Boy (uncredited)
Frank Mills
Diner Counterman (uncredited)
Monte Vandergrift
Policeman (uncredited)
Crew
George Archainbaud
Director
Willis Goldbeck
Screenplay
Stuart Palmer
Novel
Archie Marshek
Editor
Nicholas Musuraca
Director of Photography
Thomas Atkins
Assistant Director
Pandro S. Berman
Executive Producer
Kenneth Macgowan
Associate Producer
Frank Redman
Camera Operator
Willard Booth
Assistant Camera
Walter Plunkett
Costume Design
John L. Cass
Sound Recordist
Harry Redmond Sr.
Special Effects Supervisor
Bernhard Kaun
Original Music Composer
Max Steiner
Original Music Composer, Music Director
Ollie Sigurdson
Still Photographer
Albert S. D'Agostino
Art Direction
Van Nest Polglase
Art Direction
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