Strange Bargain (1949) DVD

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Strange Bargain (1949)

Director
- Will Price
Writers
- Lillie Hayward(screenplay)
- J.H. Wallis(based on a story by)
Stars
- Martha Scott
- Jeffrey Lynn
- Harry Morgan
Jeffrey Lynn plays a bookkeeper who fails in his attempt to get a raise from his employer (Richard Gaines). The boss explains that the company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and that he is planning to kill himself. He offers Lynn $10,000 if Lynn will make the suicide look like murder so that the boss' family will collect on his insurance policy. Lynn agrees--and finds himself the fall guy in a complicated fraud scheme. Much of the footage of Strange Bargain showed up as flashbacks in a 1989 episode of TV's Murder, She Wrote. By removing the original happy ending, the TV installment allowed Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) solve the mystery of the boss' murder--and to exonerate the long-imprisoned bookkeeper, played again by Jeffrey Lynn! Also appearing on this remarkable Murder She Wrote were Lynn's surviving Strange Bargain costars Martha Scott and Harry Morgan.

Strange Bargain

Posted by Paul Dellinger on Jul 31st 2024

Tight little tale of a businessman whose boss wants him to make his suicide look like murder, so his wife will inherit. Naturally, things go sideways and the businessman must go to even greater lengths to cover up his initial agreement. Neat surprise ending, too. Print was a bit on the light side but watchable.