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Design for Murder

Design for Murder

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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...

Directed by Roy Boulting
Written by Reginald Denham, Edward Percy, Francis Miller
Produced by John Boulting
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Top Cast

Manning Whiley

Manning Whiley

Bentley, the student

Barbara Everest

Barbara Everest

Ursula

Thorley Walters

Thorley Walters

Huey Frazer

M

Michael Drake

Grierson, the bully

Hay Petrie

Hay Petrie

Old Dan

D

David Keir

Quiney

Tom Gill

Tom Gill

One of Grierson's Friends

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Lewis Stringer

One of Grierson's Friends

I

Ian Fulton

One of Grierson's Friends

G

Geoffrey Gabriel

One of Grierson's Friends

Themes & Keywords

poisonbullyrevengepsychodrunkennessbully victim

About Design for Murder

Design for Murder is a crime film released in 1939 exploring themes of poison, bully, revenge, psycho, drunkenness, bully victim. Directed by Roy Boulting, it stars Manning Whiley, Barbara Everest, Thorley Walters. 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...

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