Design for Murder

Design for Murder (1939)


  • Genre: Crime
  • Release Date: 1939-03-27
  • User Rating: 5.8/10 from 4 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 0min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Charter Films Ltd.
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: Roy Boulting
star 5.8/10
From 4 Ratings

Summary

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...

Design for Murder Trailer

Is Design for Murder on HBO Max?

Unfortunately the movie Design for Murder is not yet available on HBO Max.

  • 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
Directing Roy Boulting Director
Camera D. P. Cooper Director of Photography
Sound S. MacNally Sound Recordist
Art Duncan Sutherland Art Direction
Production John Boulting Producer
Editing Roy Boulting Editor
Writing Edward Percy Other
Writing Reginald Denham Other
Writing Francis Miller Adaptation
Sound Charles Brill Music Director
Directing Victor Gammon Assistant Director
Costume & Make-Up George Turner Makeup Artist

keyboard_arrow_up