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Trunk Crime (1939)

Trunk Crime poster
Directed by
Roy Boulting
Genre
thriller film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man is found dead inside a trunk. The police investigate the people who had reason to want him gone.

tensemysterioustheatricalbrisksuspensefuldarkly playfullow-keypre-war

What happens

Trunk Crime (also known as Design for Murder ) is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Manning Whiley, Barbara Everest and Michael Drake. It was written by Francis Miller based on the 1937 play The Last Straw by Reginald Denham and Edward Percy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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