 According to director Edgar G. Ulmer (qv), who was working at PRC  at the time this film was made, it was originally to be called  "Single Indemnity" (it was a virtual copy of the  Fred MacMurray (qv)/Barbara Stanwyck (qv) film  _Double Indemnity (1944)_ (qv) of a short time earlier). The  producers of "Double Indemnity" got wind of it and threatened legal  action. PRC then changed the title to "Apology for Murder".