The Big Bluff (1955)

A fortune hunter (John Bromfield) marries a wealthy woman (Martha Vickers, THE BIG SLEEP) knowing she has only a year to live. But when he becomes impatient and decides to help speed her death along, her best friend (Eve Miller) becomes suspicious. This minor noir like potboiler directed by W. Lee Wilder (Billy's brother) is actually quite entertaining. It more resembles an extended, well done Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode than a feature film but its low budget lack of pretensions and brief 71 minute running time renders the predictability (you see the "twist" coming from a mile away) inoffensive. With Robert Hutton and the lovely Rosemarie Bowe (who would retire from acting and become Mrs. Robert Stack) as Bromfield's mistress.