Payment Deferred is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan and Dorothy Peterson.

Driven to desperation, Marble offers him a glass of whisky laced with some cyanide that he bought for developing photographs, and under cover of darkness buries his body in the back yard.

Marble uses the large amount of cash that the dead man was carrying to speculate on margin based on the tip he received, and makes £30,000, enough that he can immediately retire.

He rejects any suggestion of moving to a more expensive home; he buys books about crime and poisons and keeps rereading a page about cyanide.

Annie sees a small newspaper advertisement asking about Medland's whereabouts, and notices how the book falls open to the page about cyanide.

After Marble is convicted for her murder, a tearful Winnie visits him in his cell on the day of his execution, he reassures her that he did not kill Annie, but says that he is nonetheless at peace with his fate.