Design for Murder (1939)

6.4/10 60 min Crime

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

Bentley, the student

Barbara Everest

Ursula

Thorley Walters

Huey Frazer

Hay Petrie

Old Dan

Tom Gill

One of Grierson's Friends

Eileen Bennett

Eve

Howard Douglas

The Landlord

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