What Happened Then? (1934)

What Happened Then?

1934

Romance Crime Mystery

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Walter Summers

Cast

Cecil Ramage as Defense

Francis L. Sullivan as Richard Bentley, Prosecution Counsel

Geoffrey Wardwell as Raymond Rudford

George Zucco as Inspector Hull

Laurence Hanray as Dr. Bristol

Lorna Hubbard as Alicia Altherton

Quinton McPherson as Kirkland

Richard Bird as Peter Bromley