

Design for Murder
6.45 votes on TMDB1939Movie1h 0m
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...
Cast

Manning Whiley
Bentley, the student

Barbara Everest
Ursula

Thorley Walters
Huey Frazer
- M
Michael Drake
Grierson, the bully

Hay Petrie
Old Dan
- D
David Keir
Quiney

Tom Gill
One of Grierson's Friends
- L
Lewis Stringer
One of Grierson's Friends
- I
Ian Fulton
One of Grierson's Friends
- G
Geoffrey Gabriel
One of Grierson's Friends

Eileen Bennett
Eve

Howard Douglas
The Landlord
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