17.12.09

paid to kill (1954)

aka Five Days.
"I don't know where you'll do it, or how you'll do it, but you'll do it."
James Nevill (Dane Clark) is a thrusting young head of a successful British company. Then a failed business deal forces him and the company to the brink of bankruptcy. He hits on a scheme to blackmail a susceptible friend (Paul Carpenter) into murdering him so his wife (Cecile Chevreau) can collect his life insurance. But then a deal comes off and Nevill has to try and contact and convince his friend not to go through with the contract.
This plot demands a rather large suspension of disbelief, but given that, if you do, then this becomes a nice little noir with a nice twist in the tale.

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