Violent and viscerally sexual, Anthony Mann's muscular low-budget noir
tells the tale of a framed gangster's quest for vengeance after he busts
out of prison. Once freed, gangster Joe Sullivan Dennis O'Keefe) and
his girl friend Pat (Claier Trevor) set off to find the mobster who set
him up. The kidnapping of Ann Martin (Marsha Hunt), the social worker
who wrote to Joe in prison, leads the fugitive into a romantic triangle
of death, passion and tragedy.
