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Strange Bargain

  • 1949
  • Approved
  • 1 Std. 8 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,7/10
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IHRE BEWERTUNG
Strange Bargain (1949)
Film NoirDramaKriminalität

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuIn 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... Alles lesenIn 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.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.

  • Regie
    • Will Price
  • Drehbuch
    • Lillie Hayward
    • J.H. Wallis
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Martha Scott
    • Jeffrey Lynn
    • Harry Morgan
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    6,7/10
    932
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Will Price
    • Drehbuch
      • Lillie Hayward
      • J.H. Wallis
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Martha Scott
      • Jeffrey Lynn
      • Harry Morgan
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    Martha Scott
    Martha Scott
    • Georgia Wilson
    Jeffrey Lynn
    Jeffrey Lynn
    • Sam Wilson
    Harry Morgan
    Harry Morgan
    • Lt. Richard Webb
    • (as Henry Morgan)
    Katherine Emery
    Katherine Emery
    • Edna Jarvis
    Richard Gaines
    Richard Gaines
    • Malcolm Jarvis
    Henry O'Neill
    Henry O'Neill
    • Timothy Hearne
    Walter Sande
    Walter Sande
    • Sgt. Cord
    Michael Chapin
    Michael Chapin
    • Roddy Wilson
    Arlene Gray
    Arlene Gray
    • Hilda Wilson
    Raymond Roe
    Raymond Roe
    • Sydney Jarvis
    Robert Bray
    Robert Bray
    • McTay
    Wanda Cantlon
    • Minor Role
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Charles Ferguson
    • Office Worker at Meeting
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Charles Flynn
    • Officer Hogan
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    Dan Foster
    • Tip
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    Joel Friedkin
    • Canon
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    John Hamilton
    John Hamilton
    • Employee at Meeting
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    Katherine Lytle
    • Minor Role
    • (Nicht genannt)
    • Regie
      • Will Price
    • Drehbuch
      • Lillie Hayward
      • J.H. Wallis
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    6bmacv

    A sedate but satisfying middle-class thriller

    A sedate thriller built upon the insecurities of the newly emergent white-collar class, Strange Bargain offers solid production values and brisk direction. Jeffrey Lynn (who looks like a solution of Ray Milland and Bruce Bennett) is a hard-working family man who earns his keep as an accountant. One morning when the milk bill comes due he screws up his courage to ask for a raise; when he does, his boss tells him that the firm's at the brink of bankruptcy, and lets him go. But wait -- there's more! The boss plans to kill himself but make it look like murder so his wife can collect the insurance; for helping, he offers Lynn $10-grand. Lynn tries to prevent the suicide but arrives too late, finding his boss already dead. Enter a police detective (Harry Morgan) whose instincts tell him all is not as it seems (not only to him, but to us as well). Morgan aside, you're not likely to recognize any of the cast, but the story works itself out neatly and holds your interest. Too polite and middle-class to be true noir, Strange Bargain nontheless delivers what it promises.
    9hotangen

    Time travel to suburban L.A. circa 1949

    Because it's only 68 minutes and has no Big stars or director, it's a B film, but it's better than many an A film that it shared billing with. The story, though lacking suspense, is engrossing, and Lynn, Scott, and Morgan are superb. The best part of the movie for me was seeing suburban family life in 1949. Lynn and Scott are happily married and have 2 happy children. Scott volunteers at church and Lynn says grace before meals. But their happy home is threatened because Lynn's salary is insufficient to support a wife and 2 school-age children. Scott tells Lynn to ask for a raise, after all, he's been with the company for 12 years (he didn't serve 4 years in WW2?) The option of Scott getting a job occurs to neither of them, but then, this was years before the feminist revolution.

    The script is excellent. Dialogue supports characterization so that we 'know' all of these people. I liked Lynn. He's a decent man, one who on the spur of the moment makes the wrong choice. His mistake in judgment ensnares him in a tightening web of trouble. I liked Scott, who exemplifies the perfect mate. I liked Morgan, who always gets his man, but who makes sure that he gets the right one. The ending is a surprise, though once revealed, seems obvious. I liked the director's touch at the finish of having Morgan's cane disarm the murderer just in the nick of time. In fact, I liked everything about this little B film.
    6blanche-2

    Decent second feature

    What's neat about 1949's Strange Bargain is that on an episode of Murder, She Wrote, some of the cast returned for a sequel, during which Jessica tries to get to the bottom of the case. The film solved the case, but for the Murder, She Wrote episode, "The Days Dwindle Down," they added another twist to what we saw.

    Anyway, it was a good idea because the film was used in flashbacks. The returning stars were Martha Scott, Jeffrey Lynn (who had long ago left show business and made a fortune in real estate) and Harry Morgan.

    In the film Strange Bargain, Jeffrey Lynn plays Sam Wilson, an assistant bookkeeper at a company that is going under. He and his wife, Georgia (Scott) are having trouble making ends meet. With the encouragement of his wife, Sam goes in to ask for a raise and learns then that he's fired. Later on, as he's leaving, his boss, Mr. Jarvis (Richard Gaines) asks him to have a drink.

    Jarvis admits that he's gone through the $500,000 his father left him (the equivalent of about 4 million today), and he is basically broke. He plans on killing himself and making it look like murder so his wife (Katherine Emery) can collect his $250,000 insurance policy; with double indemnity, that makes $500,000. He's going to set it up as a robbery. He will call Sam and give him a signal, and he wants Sam to come to his home then and remove the gun and dump it in the river. For that, he'll leave Sam $10,000 in the open safe.

    Sam refuses to help him and attempts to talk Jarvis out of it, but he won't be swayed. Sam still refuses to help.

    However, Jarvis calls him and gives the signal. Sam pleads with him to wait until he can get there and talk to him, but he's too late. He removes the gun and the money.

    The police (Harry Morgan and Walter Sande) start an investigation and hone in on Jarvis' partner, Timothy Hearne (Henry O'Neill). Sam insists that Hearne couldn't have done it, but he's afraid that the man will be arrested.

    This is a pretty good film. Lynn's career never recovered after World War II - he was a pleasant enough actor, and still made occasional TV appearances even after he left. Katherine Emery always reminds me of Mercedes McCambridge.

    Watch it with the Murder She Wrote episode which you can stream.
    8Handlinghandel

    The Grim Underbelly of Suburbia

    Picture Ward Cleaver or the Robert Young character in "Father Knows best" in deep trouble. That's what we're shown here, with always handsome Jeffrey Lynn as the suburban dad.

    The title bargain is his boss's asking him to help him make a suicide look like murder so that he (the boss) can leave insurance money for his family.

    Hey! This doesn't figure in the softball and charity meetings of this town! Nor does Lynn's having, before this, been laid off by the boss.

    Katherine Emory is excellent as the not so very grieving widow. Harry Morgan is just fine as a police detective who walks leaning on a cane. And Martha Scott is superb as Mrs. Jeffrey Lynn: She's most famous for her touching portrayal of Emily in "Our Town." but she had fa greater depth, as shown most notably in her magnificent performance in "So Well Remembered" a couple years before this little charmer came out.

    Ah, for the days when local television showed low budget movies like this to fill up time. Now we have to wait fore them to appear out of nowhere on Turnwer Classics or be programmed at places like the Film Forum here in New Yiork. After all: What self-respecting person what want to waste a plasma TV on a black and white movie?!
    jbrickwood

    A unique continuation in 1987

    For any Murder She Wrote fans, this movie may be familiar. It was the main feature for an episode entitled 'The Days Dwindle Down', aired in April of 1987. Jeffrey Lynn, Harry Morgan and Martha Scott resurrected their roles for the episode. I have yet to see the movie, however after seeing this episode, I am now intrigued to see what the movie was actually like.

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    • Wissenswertes
      According to contemporary articles in Los Angeles newspapers, Pat O'Brien and Robert Young were considered for the lead in this picture at various times during pre-production.
    • Patzer
      When Sam pulls into the circular driveway of his boss's home, he pulls completely past the house. When the camera cuts to him getting out of his car, the car is parked very close to the front door of the house. The same shot of the car pulling far around the driveway is used again when he drives over to see Mrs. Jarvis; again, the shot of him getting out of the car puts him very close to the house's front door.
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      Sam Wilson: Darling, I made a terrible mistake. But I'll never make another one.

      Georgia Wilson: Oh, yes, you will. You'll make lots of them. Not like this, of course. But you're a man, and men are always making mistakes. Even -- even women make them sometimes.

    • Verbindungen
      Edited into Mord ist ihr Hobby: The Days Dwindle Down (1987)

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 5. November 1949 (Vereinigte Staaten)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • Extraño convenio
    • Drehorte
      • Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, Kalifornien, USA(Where Sam Wilson disposed of the gun that Malcolm Jarvis used to kill himself)
    • Produktionsfirma
      • RKO Radio Pictures
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      • 1 Std. 8 Min.(68 min)
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