A Life at Stake Blu-ray Movie  

The Film Detective | 1955 | 76 min | Not rated | Sep 07, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An architect embroiled in an adulterous affair suspects that he is marked for murder. Building designer Edward Shaw has been making time with Doris, his business partner's wife. After being pressured by the couple to take out a hefty life insurance policy, he narrowly escapes death in a strange, nearly fatal accident. Doris' own sister, Madge, divulges that Doris' first husband had dies under mysterious circumstances, and Shaw even tells the police of his suspicions. Torn between his fear of death and his lust for Doris, Shaw nonetheless agrees to meet his lover in a mountaintop cabin. When her cuckolded husband finally appears at the door, hard-drinking Doris brings a gun into the picture, and death arrives shortly thereafter.

Drama / Film-Noir