Design for Murder

Story

Synopsis

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...

Director

Roy Boulting

Writers

Francis Miller, Reginald Denham, Edward Percy

Language

English

Country

United Kingdom

Release date

27 March 1939

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  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