Design for Murder

Overview

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...

Directed by Roy Boulting

Top cast

Manning Whiley

Bentley, the student

Barbara Everest

Ursula

Thorley Walters

Huey Frazer

M

Michael Drake

Grierson, the bully

Hay Petrie

Old Dan

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David Keir

Quiney

Tom Gill

One of Grierson's Friends

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Lewis Stringer

One of Grierson's Friends

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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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Pamela Sharpe

Annie, the barmaid

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Charles Stephenson

The porter

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Patch

The Dog

Details