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Design for Murder

Mar 27, 1939 · 1h 0m
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Crime

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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...

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CAST

Manning Whiley
Bentley, the student
Barbara Everest
Ursula
Thorley Walters
Huey Frazer
Michael Drake
Grierson, the bully
Hay Petrie
Old Dan
David Keir
Quiney
Tom Gill
One of Grierson's Friends
Lewis Stringer
One of Grierson's Friends
Directed by Roy Boulting

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Charter Films Ltd.
Country
US, GB

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