Trunk Crime

1939
1h

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA somewhat unbalanced college student kidnaps the leader of a group of students that has been constantly mocking and harassing him, and plans to bury him alive in a trunk.A somewhat unbalanced college student kidnaps the leader of a group of students that has been constantly mocking and harassing him, and plans to bury him alive in a trunk.A somewhat unbalanced college student kidnaps the leader of a group of students that has been constantly mocking and harassing him, and plans to bury him alive in a trunk.

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Re-titled "The Crime Expert," this film's earliest documented USA telecasts took place in New York City Wednesday 27 June 1951 on WABD (Channel 5), in Los Angeles Thursday 12 June 1952 on KTTV (Channel 11), in Philadelphia Tuesday 29 July 1952 on WPTZ (Channel 3), in Dayton Wednesday 20 August 1952 on WHIO (Channel 13), in Baltimore Monday 8 September 1952 on WAAM (Channel 13), in Fort Worth Friday 5 December 1952 on KBAP (Channel 5), in Atlanta Thursday 27 August 1953 on WLW-A (Channel 8), in Detroit Friday 28 August 1953 on WXYZ (Channel 7), and in San Francisco Monday 14 December 1953 on KRON (Channel 4).

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Bentley: This is extremely inconvenient.
Ursula: Accidents are, aren't they?
Bentley: I particularly wanted to be alone this evening. I've some very urgent work to do.
Ursula: Now, don't be a donkey Mr Bentley. There's a girl in pain, can't walk. No car, no comfortable hotel for miles around.

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If Only People Would Let Him Commit His Murder In Peace!

Everyone is about to graduate, so his fellow collegians invade Manning Whiley's rooms, destroy his possession and go off to get even more drunk. Whiley decides to stick ringleader Michael Drake in a trunk and sink him in the pits and dykes around his country cottage. Unfortunately for his plans, it seems the world decides to come visit him in his murderous solitude.

Roy Boulting reportedly shot this quota quickie in twelve days, and the audience can see it's his work. The nasty sense of humor he and twin brother John exhibited in their farces of the late 1950s is evident, particularly in the character of Hay Petrie as a garrulous old gaffer who keeps showing up to offer provisions for Whiley's breakfast. The macabre glee with which the movie proceeds slides uneasily into a melodramatic exposition of madness late in the show, spoiling the effect a bit, but the first three-quarters of the movie are excellent and the ending doesn't get anywhere near wrecking the movie.