Jeffrey Lynn and Martha Scott can't make ends meet on his salary, what with two children, so he asks boss Richard Gaines for a raise. The firm, however, is bankrupt, like Gaines. Gaines makes hm a counter-offer. He has an insurance policy worth half a million dollars. He plans to commit suicide, but the insurance company won't pay off. If Lynn will remove the gun, there's $10,000 in cash for him. Lynn says no, then changes his mind. But as homicide detective Harry Morgan investigates, Lynn feels the walls closing in.
Good performances, a good script, and cinematographer Harry Wild struggle with bland direction by Will Price. There is also a cop-out ending and at least one major plot hole. I'm not the only one to think so. Almost thirty years later, Murder She Wrote reunited Lynn, Morgan, and Miss Scott is a sort of sequel to this movie, in which Lynn was convicted of the murder, and Miss Fletcher is hired to reopen the case.
Good performances, a good script, and cinematographer Harry Wild struggle with bland direction by Will Price. There is also a cop-out ending and at least one major plot hole. I'm not the only one to think so. Almost thirty years later, Murder She Wrote reunited Lynn, Morgan, and Miss Scott is a sort of sequel to this movie, in which Lynn was convicted of the murder, and Miss Fletcher is hired to reopen the case.