What Happened Then?

What Happened Then? — Plot

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.

• Release date
• September 24, 1934
• Runtime
• 55 min
• Genres
• Romance, Crime, Mystery
• Director
• Walter Summers

What Happened Then? — Cast

Richard Bird Peter Bromley

L

Lorna Hubbard Alicia Altherton

G

Geoffrey Wardwell Raymond Rudford

F

Francis L. Sullivan Richard Bentley, Prosecution Counsel

R

Richard Gray Robert George Zucco Inspector Hull

Q

Quinton McPherson Kirkland Laurence Hanray Dr. Bristol