A pretty young music teacher is bludgeoned to death in Hildegarde's school, where she's reunited with Oscar, but the autopsy report says she was dying from poison too..


Is it worth your time? If you like your mysteries with a side of snappy, old-fashioned banter and a lead character who refuses to be ignored, you’ll probably have a decent time with Murder on the Blackboard. If you need your crime movies to be gritty, realistic, or paced like a modern thriller, you should probably skip...

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"Is it worth your time? If you like your mysteries with a side of snappy, old-fashioned banter and a lead character who refuses to be ignored, you’ll probably have a decent time with Murder on the Blackboard. If you need your crime movies to be gritty, realistic, or paced like a modern thriller, you should probably skip this one. It feels very much like a stage play that decided to wander onto a film set. Edna May Oliver is basically the whole movie. She plays Hildegarde Withers with this wonder..."
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