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Strange Bargain (1949)

Directed by Will Price

Film Noir | Crime

Overview

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.

Rated NR | Length 68 minutes

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Martha Scott | Jeffrey Lynn | Harry Morgan | Katherine Emery | Richard Gaines | Henry O'Neill | Walter Sande | Michael Chapin | Arlene Gray | Raymond Roe | Robert Bray | Dan Foster | Joel Friedkin | John Hamilton | James Nolan | Theodore Rand | Betty Underwood | Nancy Valentine | Charles Flynn

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