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Design for Murder

1939 · 1h · Crime

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Overview

When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...

Cast

Manning Whiley

Manning Whiley

Bentley, the student

Barbara Everest

Barbara Everest

Ursula

Thorley Walters

Thorley Walters

Huey Frazer

Michael Drake

Grierson, the bully

Hay Petrie

Hay Petrie

Old Dan

David Keir

Quiney

Tom Gill

Tom Gill

One of Grierson's Friends

Lewis Stringer

One of Grierson's Friends

Ian Fulton

One of Grierson's Friends

Geoffrey Gabriel

One of Grierson's Friends

Eileen Bennett

Eileen Bennett

Eve

Howard Douglas

Howard Douglas

The Landlord

Pamela Sharpe

Annie, the barmaid

Charles Stephenson

The porter

Patch

The Dog

Crew

Media

Details

Release date
March 27, 1939
Status
Released
Original language
English
Runtime
1h
Genres
Crime

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