New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.
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The people behind it
Edna May Oliver
Hildegarde Withers
James Gleason
Police Insp. Oscar Piper
Robert Armstrong
Barry Costello
Mae Clarke
Gwen Parker
Donald Cook
Philip Seymour
Edgar Kennedy
Officer Donovan
Clarence Wilson
Bertrand B. Hemingway
James Donlan
Security Guard Fink
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Von Donnen
William Le Maire
MacDonald
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