Strange Bargain

Strange Bargain is a 1949 American crime film noir directed by Will Price, and starring Martha Scott, Jeffrey Lynn and Harry Morgan.

A.H. Weiler, the film critic for the New York Times penned a fairly positive review. He wrote, As a modest entry from Hollywood, Strange Bargain, which began a stand yesterday as the associate attraction to the Palaces vaudeville bill, is surprisingly diverting fare. Obviously not intended to set a cinematic landmark, it is, nevertheless, a melodrama that presents an extraordinary situation fairly suspensefully and, for the most part, through intelligent dialogue and direction. And, while it follows a familiar outline as a crime and punishment adventure, it does so neatly and with competent characterizations.Film critic Dennis Schwartz called the film a wellconceived mystery Bfilm, but strictly second feature material. He also added in his review, an interesting anecdote regarding a remake of the film on television, Strange Bargain showed up in a 1989 sic episode of TVs Murder, She Wrote. By removing the original happy ending, the TV installment allowed Angela Lansbury to solve the mystery of the boss murderand to exonerate the longimprisoned bookkeeper, played again by Jeffrey Lynn. Also appearing on this Murder She Wrote were Lynns Strange Bargain costars Martha Scott and Henry Morgan. The episode, The Days Dwindle Down, had actually aired during the shows third season in 1987. ........

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