Strange Bargain (1949)
"$10,000 If You Make My Suicide Look Like MURDER!"
68 min
Bookkeeper Sam Wilson learns from his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, that he is losing his job because the company is closing down. Jarvis then makes a strange proposition, saying he intends to commit suicide but wants Sam to make it look like a murder, in order for his wife and son to inherit Jarvis's life insurance. Sam declines, but when he goes to see Jarvis and finds his dead body, he reluctantly goes along with the scheme.
- Release date
- November 5, 1949
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Martha Scott as Georgia Wilson
- Jeffrey Lynn as Sam Wilson
- Harry Morgan as Lt. Richard Webb
- Katherine Emery as Edna Jarvis
- Richard Gaines as Malcolm Jarvis
- Henry O'Neill as Timothy Hearne
- Walter Sande as Sgt. Cord
- Michael Chapin as Roddy Wilson
- Arlene Gray as Hilda Wilson
- Raymond Roe as Sydney Jarvis
Crew
- Will Price · Director
- Lillie Hayward · Writer
- J.H. Wallis · Writer
- Sid Rogell · Producer
- Friedrich Hollaender · Composer
- Harry J. Wild · Cinematographer
- Frederic Knudtson · Editor