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Design for Murder

6.419391h MovieCrime

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…

DirectorRoy Boulting
ProducerJohn Boulting

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Cast · Directed by Roy Boulting

MWManning Whiley
Manning Whiley
Bentley, the student
BEBarbara Everest
Barbara Everest
Ursula
TWThorley Walters
Thorley Walters
Huey Frazer
MD
Michael Drake
Grierson, the bully
HPHay Petrie
Hay Petrie
Old Dan
DK
David Keir
Quiney
TGTom Gill
Tom Gill
One of Grierson's Friends
LS
Lewis Stringer
One of Grierson's Friends
IF
Ian Fulton
One of Grierson's Friends
GG
Geoffrey Gabriel
One of Grierson's Friends
EBEileen Bennett
Eileen Bennett
Eve
HDHoward Douglas
Howard Douglas
The Landlord

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Design for Murder hasn't started streaming in India yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around May 15, 1939. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.