Design for Murder Trailer

Design for Murder Trailer (1939)

27 March 1939 Crime 60 mins

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

Manning Whiley

as Bentley, the student

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

Howard Douglas

as The Landlord

Pamela Sharpe

as Annie, the barmaid

Charles Stephenson

as The porter

Patch

as The Dog

Crew

Francis Miller

Francis Miller Adaptation

Duncan Sutherland

Duncan Sutherland Art Direction

Victor Gammon

Victor Gammon Assistant Director

D. P. Cooper

D. P. Cooper Director of Photography

S. MacNally

S. MacNally Sound Recordist

Charles Brill

Charles Brill Music Director

George Turner

George Turner Makeup Artist

International Titles

Design for Murder Trailer

International Releases Dates

United Kingdom 27 March 1939

United States 01 January 1940

Production Companies

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