'40s Murder Mystery Movie [SOLVED!]

That's fine, thanks for letting me know. By the way, to what sites did you post it, if you don't mind my asking?

Good thoughts, Tarathian. Thanks!

I suppose one major deficit of the picture is, as you say, that it just doesn't seem British. This despite the presence of a nearly all-British supporting cast, too. The cottage was silly, as you say--and what an enormous "cottage"!

I suppose Montgomery's casting isn't perfect--he's not an ideal Wimsey, and, no, the accent doesn't help--but, if you judge it purely as an acting performance, I would say it's fine. It may be interesting to note that the picture was based on Sayers' stage play of Busman's Honeymoon, not the original book, and that Sayers changed Wimsey's character to be more general than the well-characterized figure of the book. Indeed, much of the book's characterization is pretty much scrapped in the film. (Sayers called the book "a love story with detective interruptions," and the movie turns it the other way around.) 

I do think, however, that the scene in which Montgomery is making all the deductions, from (1) the absence of the clock and (2) the flower pot, is grand and very Wimseycal (if I'm allowed to make up that word), recalling all the elaborate deduction sequences of Whose Body? and Clouds of Witness. I also enjoyed that sequence, as noted, for the clever plotting from Sayers's novel, admirably retained in the adaptation. (Still, I would've made that gun-toting vicar the murderer!) 

As for Busman's Honeymoon the title... According to Wikipedia, that was the original title under which it was released in London, and Haunted Honeymoon was only what it was retitled when it came over here. So, is it that we Americans just didn't know about a busman's holiday? I knew the expression, but, hey, that's just me--so I looked it up and found several sources stating that it was just as common in the U.S. Not very common now, I hasten to add (we have always used vacation, but we used to use holiday fairly interchangeably, and now we don't), but just as common as in Britain in the '40s.

So, what's the answer? At the end of the day, I think it's probably money: Haunted Honeymoon is a more intriguing title than Busman's Honeymoon. "Haunted? What, how?" (Some filmgoers must have been awfully disappointed by the lack of any kind of ghost!) "Busman's honeymoon" doesn't exactly smack, though, of mystery and intrigue. At least, I guess. 

None, unfortunately. None on your end?

tarathian123, I just got a message from teleadm on the other thread suggestion a picture called Having Wonderful Crime. I'm not sure, but I think it may be the one. I'm going to have to take a look at it later.

(To answer your question, though, it was definitely a feature. Thanks for asking!)