Directed by Budd Boetticher | Starring: Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Alan Hale Jr., Michael Pate

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.