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Design for Murder(1939)
Status: Released
Date: 1939-03-27
58%
4 Votes
Time: 1h 0m
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...
Languages: English.
Countries:
United Kingdom
ProductionCompanies:
Charter Films Ltd.
Movie: Design for Murder
Top 10 Billed Cast
Manning Whiley
Bentley, the student
Barbara Everest
Ursula
Thorley Walters
Huey Frazer
Hay Petrie
Old Dan
Tom Gill
One of Grierson's Friends
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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
1939-03-27
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5.8
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