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
Thorley Walters
Huey Frazer
Barbara Everest
Ursula
Michael Drake
Grierson
Hay Petrie
Old Dan
David Keir
Quiney
Roy Boulting
Director
Reginald Denham
Writer
Tom Gill
One of Grierson's Friends
Lewis Stringer
One of Grierson's Friends
Edward Percy
Writer
Francis Miller
Writer
Ian Fulton
One of Grierson's Friends
John Boulting
Producer
Geoffrey Gabriel
One of Grierson's Friends
D.P. Cooper
Cinematographer
Details.
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.