Design for Murder
1939When 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...
Acted in
Manning Whiley
as Bentley, the student
Barbara Everest
as Ursula
Thorley Walters
as Huey Frazer
Michael Drake
as Grierson, the bully
Hay Petrie
as Old Dan
David Keir
as Quiney
Tom Gill
as One of Grierson's Friends
Lewis Stringer
as One of Grierson's Friends
Ian Fulton
as One of Grierson's Friends
Geoffrey Gabriel
as One of Grierson's Friends
Eileen Bennett
as Eve
Howard Douglas
as The Landlord
Pamela Sharpe
as Annie, the barmaid
Charles Stephenson
as The porter
Patch
as The Dog