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Design for Murder (1939)

5.8/10 1h 0m Mar 27, 1939
Crime

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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Movie Details

Original Title Trunk Crime
Original Language EN
Status Released
Popularity 0.3

Cast

Manning Whiley
Manning Whiley
Bentley, the student
Popularity: 0.5
Barbara Everest
Barbara Everest
Ursula
Popularity: 4.2
Thorley Walters
Thorley Walters
Huey Frazer
Popularity: 11.9
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Michael Drake
Grierson, the bully
Popularity: 0.0
Hay Petrie
Hay Petrie
Old Dan
Popularity: 2.6
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David Keir
Quiney
Popularity: 0.4
Tom Gill
Tom Gill
One of Grierson's Friends
Popularity: 1.1
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Lewis Stringer
One of Grierson's Friends
Popularity: 0.1
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Ian Fulton
One of Grierson's Friends
Popularity: 0.0
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Geoffrey Gabriel
One of Grierson's Friends
Popularity: 0.0
Eileen Bennett
Eileen Bennett
Eve
Popularity: 0.2
Howard Douglas
Howard Douglas
The Landlord
Popularity: 2.3

Key Crew

Director Roy Boulting
Producer John Boulting
Editor Roy Boulting

Production

Charter Films Ltd.

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Keywords

poison bully revenge psycho drunkenness bully victim

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Rating
5.8
/10

Based on 4 votes

Details
Release Date March 27, 1939
Runtime 1h 0m
Language EN
Status Released
Popularity 0.3
Links
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