A Life at Stake is a 1955 American film noir directed by Paul Guilfoyle and starring Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes and Claudia Barrett.

Los Angeles architect and builder Edward Shaw, facing hard times, is approached by Doris Hillman with a business proposal to buy land together.

However, an accidental discovery leaves him convinced that the Hillmans' interest lies less in the long-term profits of the venture than in the $175,000 key-man insurance policy covering Shaw's life that he purchased as a precondition for the deal.

Without knowing what Doris has planned, Madge reveals to Shaw that her sister was married previously to a man who died in Wyoming when his car crashed over a bridge.

Wounded, Shaw sees the Hillmans struggle and then fall to their deaths through a clifftop doorway, just minutes before Madge and the cops arrive.