GB 1939 1hr Dir: Roy Boulting Starring: Manning Whiley and Barbara Everest
An unbalanced university student plans to kidnap a fellow pupil and bury him alive
This short quota quickie thriller was based on the play The Last Straw by Reginald Denham and Edward Percy and was released in the US under the title Design for Murder. It was then further released for television in the US under another title still: The Crime Expert. It features a couple of scenes that are believed to have been shot on the platforms of Elstree & Borehamwood station.
Manning Whiley delivers his trunk containing the unconscious body of his friend to the station, where it is manhandled by the resident porter.
A moment or two later and three university undergraduates (Tom Gill, Ian Fulton and Goeffrey Gabriel) are chatting on the platform beneath the ornate canopy. There were in fact four actors here, but Lewis Stringer is unobligingly blocked from view by Tom Gill! These shots are thought to have used Elstree & Borehamwood station and the glimpse of the Midland Railway canopy top left confirms this further.
