Design for Murder (1939)
1h
Running Time
March 27, 1939Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

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

Pamela Sharpe
Annie, the barmaid

Charles Stephenson
The porter

Patch
The Dog

Roy Boulting
Director / Editor

D. P. Cooper
Director of Photography

D.P. Cooper
Cinematographer

S. MacNally
Sound Recordist

Duncan Sutherland
Art Direction

John Boulting
Producer

Edward Percy
Other

Reginald Denham
Other

Francis Miller
Adaptation

Charles Brill
Music Director

Victor Gammon
Assistant Director

George Turner
Makeup Artist
Details.
Release DateMarch 27, 1939
Original NameTrunk Crime
StatusReleased
Running Time1h
Genres
Last updated:
This Movie Is About.
poison
revenge
bully
psycho
drunkenness
bully victim
Wiki.
Trunk Crime is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Manning Whiley, Barbara Everest and Michael Drake. It was made at Elstree Studios as a quota quickie. The film's sets were designed by Duncan Sutherland.
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