Strange Bargain
Original title: Strange Bargain
Original language: enIMDB: tt0041926
TMDB: 41551
Release date: Saturday, 5th November 1949
Adult: No
Duration: 1h 8min
Popularity: 2.708
Rate: 5.5 / 11 votes
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.
Popularity: 2.708
Rate: 5.5 / 11 votes
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.
Directors
Will Price
(Director)
(Director)Writers
J.H. Wallis (Story)
(Story)Lillie Hayward (Screenplay)
(Screenplay)Cast
Martha Scott
(Georgia Wilson)
(Georgia Wilson)Jeffrey Lynn
(Sam Wilson)
(Sam Wilson)Harry Morgan
(Richard Webb)
(Richard Webb)Katherine Emery
(Edna Jarvis)
(Edna Jarvis)Richard Gaines
(Malcolm Jarvis)
(Malcolm Jarvis)Henry O'Neill
(Timothy Hearne)
(Timothy Hearne)Walter Sande
(Sergeant Cord)
(Sergeant Cord)Michael Chapin
(Roddy Wilson)
(Roddy Wilson)Arlene Gray
(Hilda Wilson)
(Hilda Wilson)Raymond Roe
(Sydney Jarvis)
(Sydney Jarvis)Robert Bray
(Detective McTay)
(Detective McTay)Dan Foster (Tip (uncredited))
(Tip (uncredited))Joel Friedkin
(Canon (uncredited))
(Canon (uncredited))John Hamilton
(Employee at Meeting (uncredited))
(Employee at Meeting (uncredited))James Nolan
(Policeman (uncredited))
(Policeman (uncredited))Theodore Rand (Cocktail Waiter (uncredited))
(Cocktail Waiter (uncredited))Betty Underwood
(Miss Vantay (uncredited))
(Miss Vantay (uncredited))Nancy Valentine
(Lucille Gosler (uncredited))
(Lucille Gosler (uncredited))Charles Flynn (Officer Hogan (uncredited))
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