Design for Murder

IMDb 5.8 1939 • 60 min • Crime

Director

Roy Boulting

Country

GB

Plot Summary

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...

Top 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