Strange Bargain
movie
"$10,000 If You Make My Suicide Look Like MURDER!"
Released November 05, 1949
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.
Cast
Martha Scott
as
Georgia Wilson
Jeffrey Lynn
as
Sam Wilson
Harry Morgan
as
Richard Webb
Katherine Emery
as
Edna Jarvis
Richard Gaines
as
Malcolm Jarvis
Henry O'Neill
as
Timothy Hearne
Walter Sande
as
Sergeant Cord
Michael Chapin
as
Roddy Wilson
Arlene Gray
as
Hilda Wilson
Raymond Roe
as
Sydney Jarvis
Robert Bray
as
Detective McTay
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Dan Foster
as
Tip (uncredited)
Crew
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Will Price
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Director
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J.H. Wallis
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Story
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Sid Rogell
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Producer
Friedrich Hollaender
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Original Music Composer
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Harry J. Wild
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Director of Photography
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Frederic Knudtson
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Editor
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Lillie Hayward
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Screenplay
Albert S. D'Agostino
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Art Direction
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Carroll Clark
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Art Direction
C. Bakaleinikoff
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Music Director
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Darrell Silvera
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Set Decoration
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James Altwies
as
Set Decoration