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Design for Murder (1939)

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: 1939-03-27
Runtime: 60 min
Rating: 5.8 / 10
Cast
Manning Whiley
Manning Whiley
Bentley, the student
Barbara Everest
Barbara Everest
Ursula
Thorley Walters
Thorley Walters
Huey Frazer
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Michael Drake
Grierson, the bully
Hay Petrie
Hay Petrie
Old Dan
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David Keir
Quiney
Tom Gill
Tom Gill
One of Grierson's Friends
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Lewis Stringer
One of Grierson's Friends
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Ian Fulton
One of Grierson's Friends
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Geoffrey Gabriel
One of Grierson's Friends
Eileen Bennett
Eileen Bennett
Eve
Howard Douglas
Howard Douglas
The Landlord
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Pamela Sharpe
Annie, the barmaid
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Charles Stephenson
The porter
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Patch
The Dog