Design for Murder

Design for Murder

60 mins | Crime | March 27, 1939

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...

Design for Murder

60 mins | Crime | March 27, 1939

Design for Murder
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...
Producers Charter Films Ltd.
Original title Trunk Crime
Directors Victor Gammon, Roy Boulting
Writers Francis Miller, Reginald Denham, Edward Percy

Cast

Manning Whiley

as Bentley, the student

Barbara Everest

as Ursula

Thorley Walters

as Huey Frazer

Michael Drake

as Grierson, the bully

Hay Petrie

as Old Dan

David Keir

as Quiney

Tom Gill

as One of Grierson's Friends

Lewis Stringer

as One of Grierson's Friends

Ian Fulton

as One of Grierson's Friends

Geoffrey Gabriel

as One of Grierson's Friends

Howard Douglas

as The Landlord

Pamela Sharpe

as Annie, the barmaid

Charles Stephenson

as The porter

Patch

as The Dog