I'll Sell My Life

73 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

I'll Sell My Life is a 1941 American crime film directed by Elmer Clifton and starring Rose Hobart, Michael Whalen and Joan Woodbury.^[1] The film was based on the Street & Smith I'll Buy Your Life by Walter Ripperger.

Plot

Two hirelings report to their boss Mr. Bochini that they witnessed his lover being murdered by another woman unknown to them.

Mordecai Breen the editor of a small newspaper called "The Friend in Need", notices an unusual classified advertisement offering "I'll Buy Your Life". He visits the address where he views Dale Layden waiting to be interviewed, but another woman named Valencia Duncan tells Breen that Albert Darnell, who placed the ad will only see women.

Dale needs the $20.000 offered to pay for an operation to restore her brother's sight. Darnell informs her that she will receive $2000 now, with the rest of the money to be paid to the person or office of her choice after he own death.

Breen smells a story, Darnell, a published mystery author tells Breen that he has offered money to people to get the stories of their lives to use for future stories, but Breen is unconvinced and tries to get the truth out of Dale, who gives Breen an alias but uses his office as the address where the balance of her money will be paid.

Cast

• Rose Hobart as Dale Layden
• Michael Whalen as Mordecai Breen
• Stanley Fields as Bochini
• Joan Woodbury as Valencia Duncan
• Roscoe Ates as Happy Hogan
• Richard Bond as Albert Darnell
• Ben Taggart as Police Lt. Hammer
• Robert Regent as Philip Leyden
• Paul Maxey as Grady
• Munro Brown as Freddie
• Robert Walker as Lugger
• Eduardo Durant as Eddie, Orchestra Leader
• Frances Morris as Annie Winterbottom

References

Bibliography

• Fetrow, Alan G. Feature Films, 1940-1949: a United States Filmography. McFarland, 1994.

External links

• I'll Sell My Life at IMDb