Trunk Crime

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.