Strange Bargain

1949 NR 1h 8m 6.7

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.

Sam Wilson is having a hard time making ends meet. When he asks his boss for a raise, he finds out that the company is closing down and he'll be out of a job. His boss decides to commit suicide so that his family can benefit from his insurance. He asks Sam to help make it look like murder. Sam thinks he has convinced the boss not to commit suicide. But the boss does it anyway, so Sam follows the instructions the boss had given him, to make it look like murder.

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Info about Strange Bargain

Studio(s): RKO Radio Pictures

Originally Released: Nov 05, 1949

Production Country: United States

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir