Too Late for Tears

(1949)

99 minutes

Suspense / Thriller

aka "Killer Bait"

Directed by Byron Haskin

Cast: 

Lizabeth Scott as Jane Palmer
Don DeFore as Don Blake aka Blanchard
Dan Duryea as Danny Fuller
Arthur Kennedy as Alan Palmer
Kristine Miller as Kathy Palmer
Barry Kelley as Lt. Breach

On a secluded stretch of highway during one evening, a passing car throws a satchel of money into the back seat of a couple’s car.  Knowing the money was intended for someone else, the husband wants to turn it into the police, but the wife tells him to keep it ‘for a while’.  Soon, the couple is visited by a private detective claiming the money as his own, but the wife wants to split it.  Things take a definite twist when the wife decides her husband is a liability and wants to keep him quiet, permanently.