Design for Murder (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...
Director: Roy Boulting
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Manning Whiley as Bentley, the student |
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Barbara Everest as Ursula |
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Thorley Walters as Huey Frazer |
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Michael Drake as Grierson, the bully |
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Hay Petrie as Old Dan |
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David Keir as Quiney |
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Tom Gill as One of Grierson's Friends |
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Lewis Stringer as One of Grierson's Friends |
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Ian Fulton as One of Grierson's Friends |
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Geoffrey Gabriel as One of Grierson's Friends |
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Eileen Bennett as Eve |
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Howard Douglas as The Landlord |
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Pamela Sharpe as Annie, the barmaid |
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Charles Stephenson as The porter |
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Patch as The Dog |
| Directing | Roy Boulting | Director |
| Writing | Francis Miller | Adaptation |
| Sound | Charles Brill | Music Director |
| Production | John Boulting | Producer |
| Camera | D. P. Cooper | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Roy Boulting | Editor |
| Sound | S. MacNally | Sound Recordist |
| Art | Duncan Sutherland | Art Direction |
| Writing | Reginald Denham | Other |
| Directing | Victor Gammon | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Edward Percy | Other |
| Costume & Make-Up | George Turner | Makeup Artist |
