What Happened Then? (1934)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

Richard Bird

Peter Bromley

Lorna Hubbard

Alicia Altherton

Geoffrey Wardwell

Raymond Rudford

Francis L. Sullivan

Richard Bentley, Prosecution Counsel

Richard Gray

Robert

George Zucco

Inspector Hull

Quinton McPherson

Kirkland

Laurence Hanray

Dr. Bristol

Stella Arbenina

Mrs. Bromley

Cecil Ramage

Defense

J. Fisher White

Judge

Alec Finter

Director & Crew

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