Movie: Design for Murder

Top 10 Billed Cast

Manning Whiley
Manning Whiley

Bentley, the student

Barbara Everest
Barbara Everest

Ursula

Thorley Walters
Thorley Walters

Huey Frazer

Michael Drake
Michael Drake

Grierson, the bully

Hay Petrie
Hay Petrie

Old Dan

David Keir
David Keir

Quiney

Tom Gill
Tom Gill

One of Grierson's Friends

Lewis Stringer
Lewis Stringer

One of Grierson's Friends

Ian Fulton
Ian Fulton

One of Grierson's Friends

Geoffrey Gabriel
Geoffrey Gabriel

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

  • Average

    5.8

  • Rating:

    2.9 starts

  • Tagline

  • Genres

    Crime

  • Languages:

    English

  • Keywords

    poisonbullyrevengepsychodrunkennessbully victim