Trunk Crime

Date: 1939
Director: Roy Boulting
Production Company: Charter Film Productions

Stars: Manning Whiley, Barbara Everest, Michael Drake, Hay Petrie, Thorley Walters
Location(s): Hertfordshire

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With plans to bury him alive, a college student kidnaps bully who has been mocking and harassing him.

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Page compiled by Phil Wilkinson

Also known as ‘Design for Murder’ (US Title)

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At college, Bentley sleeps after Grierson and his fellow students force their way in and ransack his room during a going down party.

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After suffering a life of constant mocking and harassment from Grierson, Bentley (Manning Whiley) delivers a trunk containing the bully's unconscious body to the railway station. Elstree station off Allum Lane in Elstree, Hertfordshire.

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Setting off to say sorry to Bentley for their behaviour, four Undergraduates (Tom Gill, Lewis Stringer, Ian Fulton and Geoffrey Gabriel) discus whether it's right that they embark on the journey without their pal Grierson. The platforms at Elstree station also appear in 'Let the People Sing', 'Watch It, Sailor!', 'You Made Me Love You' and 'Girls Will Be Boys'.