Film

Design for Murder

1939 · 1h · Crime

IMDb

6.0

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...

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

Ian Fulton

One of Grierson's Friends

Geoffrey Gabriel

One of Grierson's Friends

Eileen Bennett

Eve

Howard Douglas

The Landlord

Pamela Sharpe

Annie, the barmaid

Charles Stephenson

The porter

Patch

The Dog

• Roy BoultingDirector · Editor
• John BoultingProducer
• D. P. CooperDirector of Photography

Release date

March 27, 1939

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h

Genres

Crime

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