What Happened Then? (1934)
Young Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had adopted and raised him after Raymond's parent's died when he was a young boy. The prosecution allows his motive was fear of being disinherited if he married his fiancé, the fair Alicia Atherton, against his uncle's wishes, and the prosecution lays a mountain of evidence against Raymond, including his razor, dragged from an artificial lake on the estate, as the murder weapon; Raymond's bloody fingerprints and footprints found at the scene of bedroom crime, and his bloody shoes, found in his cupboard and bloody monogrammed-handkerchief found under his uncle's death bed. Raymond's only defense is that he could not have committed the crime as he goes into a paroxysm of dread at the mere sight of blood, a phobia he has had ever since childhood when his dog was run over by a lorry and the dog's blood was splattered into his face.
Director: Walter Summers
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Richard Bird as Peter Bromley |
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Lorna Hubbard as Alicia Altherton |
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Geoffrey Wardwell as Raymond Rudford |
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Francis L. Sullivan as Richard Bentley, Prosecution Counsel |
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Richard Gray as Robert |
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George Zucco as Inspector Hull |
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Quinton McPherson as Kirkland |
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Laurence Hanray as Dr. Bristol |
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Stella Arbenina as Mrs. Bromley |
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Cecil Ramage as Defense |
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J. Fisher White as Judge |
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Alec Finter as |
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Kathleen Harrison as |
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Raymond Huntley as |
| Directing | Walter Summers | Director |
