The Silent Partner

Plot:

A singer is confronted by a man who has been writing some of his hit songs which he has not received credit. When he threatens to expose him, the singer kills him. That's when one of his people a naive young man comes in and sees what happened. The singer tells him the man attacked him. He tells the young man to say he did it and the singer promises to help him. Eventually he gets bailed out and the singer tells him to hide, in reality the singer's planning to kill him so that he won't recant and that there'll be no further investigation into his link with dead man. ...