Design for Murder
1939 | 60m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Roy Boulting |
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| Writer: | Francis Miller |
| Staring: |
| 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... | |
| Release Date: | Mar 27, 1939 |
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| Director: | Roy Boulting |
| Writer: | Francis Miller |
| Genres: | Crime |
| Keywords | poison, revenge, bully, psycho, drunkenness, bully victim |
| Production Companies | Charter Films Ltd. |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: May 08, 2024 Entered: Apr 27, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Roy Boulting | Editor, Director |
| Charles Brill | Music Director |
| D. P. Cooper | Director of Photography |
| Reginald Denham | Other |
| Francis Miller | Adaptation |
| Duncan Sutherland | Art Direction |
| S. MacNally | Sound Recordist |
| Edward Percy | Other |
| Victor Gammon | Assistant Director |
| George Turner | Makeup Artist |
| Name | Title |
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| John Boulting | Producer |
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