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 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]

Plot

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, watching coldly as Kenny strikes her husband to death on a country road. Together, they push the body of Hicks in his car over a nearby cliff.

It is soon revealed as a murder when the police confirm Hick's car was in neutral gear, plus the body of Hicks did not bleed, signifying he was dead before the crash. 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 Toni and Kenny shoot each other. As he dies, Kenny types out his confession to the crime.^[6]

Cast

• Ann Savage
  as Toni Kirkland
• Hugh Beaumont as Kenny Blake
• Russell Hicks
  as Harvey Kirkland
• Charles D. Brown as Ward McKee
• Pierre Watkin as Craig Jordan
• Sarah Padden as Maggie, the Janitress
• Norman Willis as Allen Webb
• Eva Novak as Maid
• Budd Buster as Jed, the Caretaker
• George Sherwood as Police Lt. Edwards
• Wheaton Chambers as Minister
• Arch Hall Sr. as Paul

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