Design for Murder

Design for Murder (1939)

Trunk Crime

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...

Date of release
1939-03-27
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 0m
Genres
Crime
Director
Roy Boulting

Casting

Interesting facts

Trunk Crime is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Manning Whiley, Barbara Everest and Michael Drake. It was written by Francis Miller based on the 1937 play The Last Straw by Reginald Denham and Edward Percy.

Production

It was made at Elstree Studios as a quota quickie. The film's sets were designed by Duncan Sutherland.

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