What Happened Then?

Story

Synopsis

Young Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had adopted and raised him after Raymond's parent's died when he was a young boy. The prosecution allows his motive was fear of being disinherited if he married his fiancé, the fair Alicia Atherton, against his uncle's wishes, and the prosecution lays a mountain of evidence against Raymond, including his razor, dragged from an artificial lake on the estate, as the murder weapon; Raymond's bloody fingerprints and footprints found at the scene of bedroom crime, and his bloody shoes, found in his cupboard and bloody monogrammed-handkerchief found under his uncle's death bed. Raymond's only defense is that he could not have committed the crime as he goes into a paroxysm of dread at the mere sight of blood, a phobia he has had ever since childhood when his dog was run over by a lorry and the dog's blood was splattered into his face.

Director

Walter Summers

Language

English

Country

United Kingdom

Release date

24 September 1934

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Richard Bird

  Peter Bromley

• Lorna Hubbard

  Alicia Altherton

• Geoffrey Wardwell

  Raymond Rudford

• 

  Francis L. Sullivan

  Richard Bentley, Prosecution Counsel

• Richard Gray

  Robert

• 

  George Zucco

  Inspector Hull

• Quinton McPherson

  Kirkland

• 

  Laurence Hanray

  Dr. Bristol

• 

  Stella Arbenina

  Mrs. Bromley

• 

  Cecil Ramage

  Defense

• 

  J. Fisher White

  Judge

• Alec Finter