Design for Murder

Design for Murder

Design for Murder

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Design for Murder

1939

1h 0m

5.8(4 votes)

Crime

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...

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15 members

Acting

Manning Whiley

Bentley, the student

Manning Whiley

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Barbara Everest

Ursula

Barbara Everest

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Thorley Walters

Huey Frazer

Thorley Walters

Editing

Michael Drake

Grierson, the bully

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Hay Petrie

Old Dan

Hay Petrie

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David Keir

Quiney

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Tom Gill

One of Grierson's Friends

Tom Gill

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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

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Eileen Bennett

Eve

Eileen Bennett

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Howard Douglas

The Landlord

Howard Douglas

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Pamela Sharpe

Annie, the barmaid

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Charles Stephenson

The porter

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Patch

The Dog

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