Design for Murder
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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
27 people
Manning Whiley
Bentley, the student
Also in
"Pimpernel" Smith
The Seventh Veil
Barbara Everest
Ursula
Known for
Gaslight
The Uninvited
Reginald Denham
Roy Boulting
Also in
Tell England
John Boulting
Also in
Tell England
World in Action
Duncan Sutherland
Thorley Walters
Huey Frazer
Known for
Vampire Circus
Frankenstein Created Woman
Edward Percy
Charles Brill
Michael Drake
Grierson, the bully
Francis Miller
Victor Gammon
Roy Boulting Director · D. P. Cooper Cinematographer
United States release January 1, 1940 · Produced in United Kingdom · Production Charter Film Productions
Production
Charter Films Ltd.
Production
Charter Film Productions
Production
United Kingdom
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Original title
Trunk Crime
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · March 27, 1939
Theatrical
United States · January 1, 1940
Theatrical · Distributed by World Pictures Corp.
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