Cover Up (film)
Even the policy's double-indemnity payout for murder is not enough to elicit cooperation from its beneficiary, Phillips' niece Margaret Baker, nor her newly wed husband, Frank, Donovan's top suspect.He can't: he has a job to do, and his company is on the hook for an extra $20,000 if the death proves to have been murder...but a chance sighting of Anita steers him avidly in the pursuit of l' amour.At the annual town Christmas tree lighting the residents are grieved to learn that beloved longtime physician Dr. Gerrow, who presides over the festivity and delivered half the folks in the crowd, has died of a heart attack.Complications ensue when Donovan finds that Stu had owned a Luger he'd brought back from World War I, but given to Gerrow for his gun collection some months earlier.To smoke the murderer out Donovan plants a story in the local newspaper stating that he has summoned a forensic police chemist to uncover clues of the killer's identity still present at the Phillips home.With an eye toward settling there - and wedding Anita - he agrees to keep his company paperwork trail buried, and see that the $20,000 murder indemnity is quietly paid to a charity as Margaret has requested.According to Madeleine Stowe, guest host of the May 21, 2016, Turner Classic Movies screening of Cover Up, the producer initially resisted the Holiday timeframe for the film, feeling the subject was unsuitable for a Christmas setting.