Apology for Murder
1945 film by Sam Newfield / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Apology for Murder is a 1945 American film noir directed by Sam Newfield and starring Ann Savage, Hugh Beaumont, Russell Hicks and Charles D. Brown.[1][2]
Apology for Murder | |
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Directed by | Sam Newfield |
Screenplay by | Fred Myton |
Story by | Fred Myton |
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Produced by | Sigmund Neufeld |
Starring | Ann Savage Hugh Beaumont Russell Hicks Charles D. Brown |
Cinematography | Jack Greenhalgh |
Edited by | Richard L. Van Enger |
Music by | Leo Erdody (uncredited) |
Production company | Sigmund Neufeld Productions |
Distributed by | Producers Releasing Corporation |
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Running time | 67 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The plot of Apology for Murder is a blatant rip-off of the seminal film noir Double Indemnity which was released the previous year, based on the novel of the same name. 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 called the film Single Indemnity. However, Paramount Pictures, the production company of Double Indemnity, obtained an injunction that barred the film's original release under that title. PRC therefore changed the title to Apology for Murder.[3]
Much acclaimed B movie director Edgar G. Ulmer, who was working at PRC at the time Apology for Murder was made, claimed during a 1970 interview with director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich that he wrote the original Single Indemnity script for producer Sigmund Neufeld.[4] Ulmer, though, 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.[5]