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Design for Murder
Genres
Crime
Overview
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...
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
60 min
Release Date
1939-03-27
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
4
Vote Average
5.8
Cast
Meet the talented actors who bring the movie to life.
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
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