'' is a
Black-and-white Film Noir starring Glenn Ford. The
B-movie is generally praised by critics as an effective crime thriller despite its low budget.
Mike Lambert takes to driving a truck when he falls on hard times. When his rig breaks stop working in a small town he meets Paula Craig (Janis Carter) at the La Paloma Cafe and is quickly drawn into a criminal plot devised by the seductive
Femme Fatale . Paula talks her boyfriend, Stephen, into robbing the bank that he manages, then kills Stephen and takes the all of the stolen cash. She then confesses the killing to Mike and begs him to run away with her, claiming she murdered Stephen in a fit of passion while drunk. Mike considers her offer until he learns that his close friend Jeff gets accused of the killing -- and that Paula intends to pin the robbery that Stephen committed on his friend.
