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In 1987, the television series Murder, She Wrote broadcast an episode that served as a sequel to Strange Bargain. This discounted the original ending of the film, instead seeing Jessica Fletcher being recruited to attempt to prove Sam Wilson's innocence
Strange Bargain: Directed by Will Price. With Martha Scott, Jeffrey Lynn, Harry Morgan, Katherine Emery. In order to cash-in a life insurance policy, a failing business owner asks one of his employees, who has financial woes of his own, to aid him in disguising his suicide into a robbery-murder.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Will Price
- 1949-11-05
24 de may. de 2022 · 24 de mayo de 2022 - 00:53 - Will Price. Pese al amplio conocimiento de su amplia y gloriosa producción dentro del género, es cierto que entre las costuras de la RKO dentro del noir, aún quedan no pocos exponentes precisos de una necesaria vindicación.
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.
Saturday. STRANGE BARGAIN (1949) In the opening moments of RKO’s 1949 second feature Strange Bargain, everyman husband and father Sam Wilson ducks a well-aimed daily newspaper as he reaches to grab the milk from his suburban front porch.
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.
Downer Ending: The story's first paragraph hints that the ending will be this. Exact Words: The benefactor's admonition to Sharlo to keep the deal secret. "Remember, Sharlo! Keep our bargain a secret —otherwise it'll be hell with me and you ." Fire and Brimstone Hell: The mystery benefactor's home, though Sharlo doesn't know it at the time.