A Life at Stake

1955

Drama / Film-Noir

4
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 1165 1.2K

Director

Top cast

Douglass Dumbrille as Gus Hillman
Charles Maxwell as Police Lt. Hoff
Forbes Murray as Businessman
Jeffrey Sayre as Bar Patron
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694.71 MB
1280*932
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 15 min
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1.26 GB
1472*1072
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 15 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by hwg1957-102-265704 6 / 10

"Stand you up? I'd rather strangle myself!"

Reviewed by liambean 7 / 10

Intereseing 50s Noir Film with Little Known Keith Andes

I'm not sure what happened to Keith Andes, he was a competent actor, had the looks (and chops for serious roles), had the perfect deep voice, and was just different enough to be noticeable.

IMDB shows he had seventy roles, but they all seemed to be "B" pictures. He did have a leading role in "This man Dawson," as Dawson of course. At least this role ran for 39 episodes.

He also played Dr. Peter Wayne in an Outer Limits episode called "Expanding Human" and as "Akuta" in a Star Trek (the original) episode called "The Apple."

Basically, Andes plays Edward Shaw, an architect, whose business failed, leaving him responsible for tens of thousands of dollars in investments. His lawyer recommends a partnership and he goes to meet this potential partner; a very sexy Doris Hillman played by Angela Lansbury. Shaw decides to take the deal and is then told his life needs to be insured, just in case, for the business.

There are quite a few double-entendres at the beginning, but the heat quickly cools when Shaw suspects the life insurance policy on his life might just be all the excuse Doris needs to bump him off. He finds out that her first husband died after he fell asleep while driving and drove off of a cliff.

At the beginning we are sure Doris is behind this, but there's a twist, someone wants him dead, but it's not Doris. The end comes when our criminal couple end up falling off of the balcony of their Big Bear cabin which just happens to overlook a cliff.

Heights play a prominent role in this picture.

Another highlight was the Kaiser Darrin featured at the thirty-eight minute mark. This was a fiberglass production car, produced before the Chevrolet Corvette.

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