• 1949
  • Approved
  • 1h 8m
Strange Bargain

Summary 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. View more details

  • 1949
  • Approved
  • 1h 8m

Strange Bargain

Directed : Will Price

Written : Lillie Hayward J.H. Wallis

Stars : Harry Morgan Jeffrey Lynn Martha Scott Katherine Emery

All cast & crew

6.7

Details

Genres : Crime Drama Film-Noir

Release date : Nov 4, 1949

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California, USA

Production companies : RKO Radio Pictures

Summary 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. View more details

Details

Genres : Crime Drama Film-Noir

Release date : Nov 4, 1949

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California, USA

Production companies : RKO Radio Pictures

Photos

Left to Right: Martha Scott, Arlene Gray, Jeffery Lynn, Michael Chapin Jeffrey Lynn, Harry Morgan, and Martha Scott in Strange Bargain (1949) Jeffrey Lynn in Strange Bargain (1949) Martha Scott in Strange Bargain (1949) Jeffrey Lynn and Martha Scott in Strange Bargain (1949) Strange Bargain (1949)

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