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What Happened Then? (1934)

What Happened Then? (1934)

Crime Romance Mystery
Release Date: 1934, September 24
Directors: Walter Summers
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: BIF
Cast: Richard Gray, George Zucco, Quinton McPherson, Richard Bird, Francis L. Sullivan, Cecil Ramage, Laurence Hanray, J. Fisher White, Geoffrey Wardwell, Stella Arbenina, Lorna Hubbard

Overview:

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.