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Trunk Crime is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Manning Whiley, Barbara Everest and Michael Drake. It was made at Elstree Studios as a quota quickie. The film's sets were designed by Duncan Sutherland.
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. Director Roy Boulting
- (65)
- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Roy Boulting
- 1940-11-27
May 13, 2020 · Swimming trunk gang (1975) ROBBERS: Khalil (left) and Suhaymi of the swimming trunk gang arriving for court before being sentenced to 64 years in jail and 144 strokes of the cane in total....
May 17, 2016 · For 30 months in the early 1970s, the gang of four robbers terrorised residents, inflicting injuries in four of their hold-ups. They were so successful in eluding the police that they were ...
- Swimming Trunks Gang
- The Modus Operandi
- What They Did
- Caught in July 1975
A group of four Malay men -- Suhaymi Harith, Khalil Mohammed, Wassan Sakeebu, and Wagiman Abdullah -- would target and rob houses in nothing but swimming trunks. For 30 months, the "Swim Trunk Gang", as they were called in the press, pulled off more than 500 offences, such as housebreaking, robbery, and theft. Across their short-lived crime careers...
The four men would first meet up, and take a taxi to their destination together. Then they will find a spot to strip down to their swimming trunks and break into their victims' houses. They then rob their victims at knife point. After looting the house, the robbers would run back to where they hid their clothes, dress up, and then fled via a taxi. ...
The gang favoured small tools such as screwdrivers, spanners, pliers, and wire cutters. Often, their targets would semi-detached houses, terraces houses, and bungalows -- big houses that indicated the victims' wealth. They also operated within a small time window: Between 2am and 4.30am. Wassan would open the window louvres for the small-sized Khal...
Fortunately, their crime spree was short-lived. On July 3, 1975, the police raided Suhaymi's office and arrested him. From there, he gave away the names of his accomplices after a 24-hour interrogation. The rest were caught in a pre-dawn raid. After sentencing in late July 1975, the four men were given a total of 64 years' in jail and 144 strokes o...
May 29, 2017 · A taut and rather macabre little thriller directed by Roy Boulting, "Trunk Crime" tells the story of a student who plans a dreadful revenge on a fellow student who bullies him...
- 49 min
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Known as Trunk Crime (1939) or it's less fitting American name Design for Murder, the film tells of a student poisoning his bully and putting him in a trunk that he want's to dispose. Doesn't prove as easy as he'd hoped and the psychology and suspense of it plays a large part in making this a tiny gem in the 1930s British suspense genre.
