Where to watch Design for Murder (1939) in the UK
Design for Murder (1939) is not currently listed on any UK streaming, rental, or purchase service. Last verified on 10 May 2026 by ScreenSearch.
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 & crew
Top-billed cast in Design for Murder.
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Manning WhileyBentley, the student -
Barbara EverestUrsula -
Thorley WaltersHuey Frazer -
Michael DrakeGrierson, the bully
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Hay PetrieOld Dan -
David KeirQuiney
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Tom GillOne of Grierson's Friends -
Lewis StringerOne of Grierson's Friends
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