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What Happened Then?

50 %|Sep 24, 1934|Romance, Crime, Mystery

Young Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had adopted and raised him after Raymond's parent's died when he was a young boy. The prosecution allows his motive was fear of being disinherited if he married his fiancé, the fair Alicia Atherton, against his uncle's wishes, and the prosecution lays a mountain of evidence against Raymond, including his razor, dragged from an artificial lake on the estate, as the murder weapon; Raymond's bloody fingerprints and footprints found at the scene of bedroom crime, and his bloody shoes, found in his cupboard and bloody monogrammed-handkerchief found under his uncle's death bed. Raymond's only defense is that he could not have committed the crime as he goes into a paroxysm of dread at the mere sight of blood, a phobia he has had ever since childhood when his dog was run over by a lorry and the dog's blood was splattered into his face.

Featured Crew

Walter Summers
Director

Cast

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Richard Bird
Peter Bromley
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Lorna Hubbard
Alicia Altherton
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Geoffrey Wardwell
Raymond Rudford
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Francis L. Sullivan
Richard Bentley, Prosecution Counsel
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George Zucco
Inspector Hull
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Laurence Hanray
Dr. Bristol
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Stella Arbenina
Mrs. Bromley