is a 1956 American film noir directed by Peter Godfrey and starring Angela Lansbury, Raymond Burr and Dick Foran.

Defense lawyer Craig Carlson buys a pistol at a pawn shop and deposits it in his office desk drawer with a file folder.

He dictates a message into a tape recorder for district attorney Ray Willis, revealing that he expects to be murdered within an hour, and he begins to tell his story in extended flashbacks.

Days later at his office, Joe finishes writing a letter and gives it to his business partner Lou Kazarian to mail.

Willis notes that Myra was unemployed when she first met Joe, a successful businessman with substantial life insurance.

Craig then remembers Myra mentioning that an "old friend," an artist named Carl Holt, had visited her in jail during the trial.

Accusing her of costing him his best friend, the love of his life and his profession all at once, Craig tells Myra that she will pay for her crime because he will force her to murder him.

Hearing a knock at the office door, Craig leaves the recorder running and hides the microphone before admitting Myra.