Angela Lansbury was a stage sensation in the '40s and '50s, racking up Tony Awards and wowing audiences everywhere. These two noir-ish selections allowed the rising star to show her range, from dizzy blond housewife in "A Life at Stake" to scheming black widow in "Please Murder Me".
A Life at Stake (1954) An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.
Please Murder Me! (1956) A lawyer wins an acquittal for his client, a woman accused of murder. After the verdict, he finds out that she indeed did commit the murder and manipulated him to win her acquittal. Guilt-ridden, and knowing that she can't be tried again for the murder, he devises a plan to bring her to justice.
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