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Apology for Murder is a american film of genre Drama directed by Sam Newfield released in USA on 27 september 1945 with Ann Savage
Apology for Murder (1945)
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Add to a movie listApology for Murder is a 1945 American film noir directed by Sam Newfield, and starring Ann Savage, Hugh Beaumont, Russell Hicks and Charles D. Brown.
The plot of Apology for Murder is a blatant rip-off of the seminal film noir Double Indemnity which was released the previous year. The production company Producers Releasing Corporation, one of the B movie studios of Hollywood’s Poverty Row, wanted to take advantage of Double Indemnity's huge success and originally intended to call the film Single Indemnity. However, Paramount Pictures the production company of Double Indemnity, got wind of it and obtained an injunction. PRC then changed the title to Apology for Murder.
Much acclaimed B movie director Edgar G. Ulmer, who was working at PRC at the time Apology for Murder was made, claimed during a conversation with Peter Bogdanovich that he wrote the original Single Indemnity script for producer Sigmund Neufeld. However, he erroneously believed that the film made from it was finally released under the title Blonde Ice, which is a totally different film produced by Film Classics.
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Tough reporter Kenny Blake (Beaumont) falls in love with sultry Toni Kirkland (Savage) who is married to a much older man (Hicks). She seduces him to murder her husband. City editor Ward McKee (Brown), Kenny's boss and best friend, begins to pursue the tangled threads of the crime relentlessly and gradually closes the net on Kenny. In the end Tony and Kenny shoot each other. As he dies, Kenny types out his confession to the crime.Actors
Ann Savage
(Toni Kirkland)
Hugh Beaumont
(Kenny Blake)
Russell Hicks
(Harvey Kirkland)
Pierre Watkin
(Craig Jordan)
Sarah Padden
(Maggie)
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