Design for Murder
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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Title: Design for Murder Summary: A somewhat unbalanced college student kidnaps the leader of a group of students that has been constantly mocking and harassing him, and plans to bury him alive in a trunk. Directed by: Roy Boulting Actors: Manning Whiley, Barbara Everest, Michael Drake Production Company: Charter Film Productions Release Date: 27 November 1940 (USA) Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1 A somewhat unbalanced college student kidnaps the leader of a group of students that has been constantly mocking and harassing him, and plans to bury him alive in a trunk.
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- Director
- Roy Boulting
- Starring
- Manning Whiley, Barbara Everest, Thorley Walters, Michael Drake, Hay Petrie, David Keir, Tom Gill, Lewis Stringer
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