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A Life at Stake

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A Life at Stake
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPaul Guilfoyle
Written byRuss Bender
Hank McCune
Produced byAndy C. Burger
Charles Maxwell
Hank McCune
StarringAngela Lansbury
Keith Andes
Douglass Dumbrille
Claudia Barrett
Jane Darwell
CinematographyTed Allan
Edited byFrank Sullivan
Music byLes Baxter
Production
company
Hank McCune Productions
Distributed byFilmakers Releasing Organization
Monarch Film Corporation (UK)
Release date
March 18, 1955
Running time
76 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

A Life at Stake is a 1955 American film noir directed by Paul Guilfoyle and starring Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes and Claudia Barrett. It was an independent production, made and distributed outside the Hollywood studio system.

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Plot

Down-on-his-luck Los Angeles architect and builder Edward Shaw is approached by Doris Hillman with a business proposal of buying land together, on which he would build houses that she would then sell, using her experience as a former real estate broker. Her husband, Gus Hillman, a wealthy businessman, would be willing to contribute half a million dollars as capital for the venture.

Doris quickly seems interested in more than a purely professional relationship. Shaw starts an affair with her and accepts the business offer. However, an accidental discovery leaves him convinced that the Hillmans' interest lies less in the long-term profits of the venture than in the $175,000 key man insurance policy he took on himself as a precondition for the deal, and that an attempt on his life is imminent.

Madge, the younger sister of Doris, develops a romantic interest in Shaw as well. Without knowing what Doris has planned, she reveals to Shaw that her sister was married previously to a man who died in Wyoming when his car crashed over a bridge. Shaw ends up drugged by Gus Hillman and barely keeps his car from going off a cliff.

The police are skeptical about his story and the insurance company refuses to cancel the policy, Hillman having portrayed Shaw as a man who is trying to steal his wife. Madge teams with Shaw to try to foil her sister's scheme, but Doris lures him to her mountain cabin and shoots him. A wounded Shaw sees both Hillmans struggle then fall to their deaths through a clifftop doorway, just minutes before Madge and the cops arrive.

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