{"id":34574,"date":"2023-11-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34574"},"modified":"2023-11-28T10:12:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T15:12:32","slug":"strange-bargain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34574","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Strange Bargain&#8221; (1949) starring Jeffrey Lynn, Martha Scott &#038; Henry Morgan \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z112823zview_strangebargain.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Strange Bargain<\/strong> (1949)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Will Price<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: <strong>Lillie Hayward <\/strong>from a story by<strong> J.H. Wallis<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>Martha Scott, Jeffrey Lynn, Harry Morgan, Richard Gaines<\/strong> and <strong>Walter Sande.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>&#8220;$10,000 If You Make My Suicide Look Like MURDER!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the day that Sam Wilson (Lynn) asks his boss, Malcolm Jarvis (Gaines) for a raise, Jarvis offers him a deal. Jarvis will give Sam $10,000.00 if Sam will make Jarvis&#8217; suicide look like a murder!\u00a0 Jarvis explains that the company is probably going to go out of business in a matter of weeks.\u00a0 Jarvis is himself broke despite the fact that he lives in a big house and looks rich.\u00a0 Jarvis plans to shoot himself that very evening while his wife and son are out.\u00a0 Before he kills himself, he will mess up his home office to look like a robbery.\u00a0 All Sam has to do is get rid of the gun.\u00a0 Sam refuses and tries to talk Mr. Jarvis out of killing himself.\u00a0 Jarvis says there is no other way to leave money for his family and he&#8217;s ready to die.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That evening Sam receives the call.\u00a0 He heads over to talk sense into Mr. Jarvis.\u00a0 When he arrives, Mr. Jarvis is lying dead from a gunshot.\u00a0 There is an envelope with $10,000 in it addressed to Sam.\u00a0 Realizing that he will soon be out of a job and Jarvis is beyond help, Sam takes the money.<\/p>\n<p>The next day police begin to investigate.\u00a0 Things aren&#8217;t adding up.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t look like suicide.\u00a0 Any guesses on who the main suspect is?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Strange Bargain<\/em> runs a quick 68 minutes.\u00a0 It&#8217;s got a likable cast. There&#8217;s a nice twist on the suicide.\u00a0 If I were to pick any nits is that it all wraps up a bit too nicely.\u00a0 But in this day and age, why complain about things that end up that way?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z112823zview_strangebargain2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"462\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strange Bargain (1949) Director: Will Price Screenplay by: Lillie Hayward from a story by J.H. 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