poster

Design for Murder

Crime

5.8

Release Date

March 27, 1939

Duration

60 min

Status

Released

Language

en

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...

Casts

Manning Whiley

Bentley, the student

Manning Whiley

Barbara Everest

Ursula

Barbara Everest

Thorley Walters

Huey Frazer

Thorley Walters

Michael Drake

Grierson, the bully

Michael Drake

Hay Petrie

Old Dan

Hay Petrie

David Keir

Quiney

David Keir

Tom Gill

One of Grierson's Friends

Tom Gill

Lewis Stringer

One of Grierson's Friends

Lewis Stringer

Ian Fulton

One of Grierson's Friends

Ian Fulton

Geoffrey Gabriel

One of Grierson's Friends

Geoffrey Gabriel

Eileen Bennett

Eve

Eileen Bennett

Howard Douglas

The Landlord

Howard Douglas

Pamela Sharpe

Annie, the barmaid

Pamela Sharpe

Charles Stephenson

The porter

Charles Stephenson

Patch

The Dog

Patch

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