Caught Stealing and Caught Wanting More
You'd better buckle up, pack spare underwear, & maybe lay off the drinking for a night, for a gnarly ride in New York!
Design for Murder (1940)
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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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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Genre:Crime
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In Theaters:1/1/1940
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Runtime:60 minutes
Studio:Charter Films Ltd.
Cast
Roy Boulting
Director
Manning Whiley
Bentley, the student
Barbara Everest
Ursula
Thorley Walters
Huey Frazer
Michael Drake
Grierson, the bully
Hay Petrie
Old Dan
David Keir
Quiney
Tom Gill
One of Grierson's Friends
Lewis Stringer
One of Grierson's Friends
Ian Fulton
One of Grierson's Friends
Geoffrey Gabriel
One of Grierson's Friends
Eileen Bennett
Eve
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