LIFE AT STAKE, A(1955)
In the set: 100 Greatest Mystery Classics

This one's about an architect who gets approached
by a lawyer who has a business deal for him! He
will build houses on property bought by another
investor, Angela and her husband! They insist
that he takes out a large life insurance policy
on himself($175,000)! All of a sudden accidents
start happening to him and he thinks that his
investor friends are trying to kill him!! B

A review from IMDb.com:

"A Life At Stake" opens with a shirtless Keith
Andes (playing a smart patsy)....I have to admit
he has a great body. Soon afterwards, he meets
Angela Lansbury (playing a conflicted femme
fatale) lounging in her pool....Lansbury was
29 when she made this film and although not
conventionally beautiful even back then, she
is shockingly sexy here....she uses her whole
body strategically. Their dialogue is
surprisingly suggestive for a 1950s movie,
for example leaving little doubt as to how
Lansbury's character became such a successful
real estate saleswoman ("Isn't there a big
Naval base in San Diego?" - "HUGE"!). Their
second meeting, in an apartment, is almost
equally heated. The rest of the movie is a
little more lukewarm, but it does have a
dependably slimy Douglas Dumbrille, and
a fitting - and ironic - ending.
**1/2 out of 4. - gridoon2019