Charles McGraw is an honest investigator for an insurance company. Then he meets Joan Dixon, a girl who has been through the mill and wants what she can get. Time goes on, and McGraw sees he has a chance with her. He devises a plan to put serious money in his pocket, and sells it to crime planner Lowell Gilmore for a third of the take. However, Dixon has changed, and she now wants only McGraw; McGraw tries to back out, but Gilmore convinces him that yen for the good things doesn't go away permanently.
If any actor was made for film noir, it was McGraw, with his menacing bulk and gravelly voice. This, however, is a straight crime drama, and a cheaply shot one at that; the big heist takes place offscreen while he and Miss Dixon are honeymooning in the mountains. The big scene is the one in which McGraw beats up a suspect who, Gilmore has told McGraw, will clam up when the rough stuff is tried. Even so, it's a well done crime drama about the psychology of the bad guy, and McGraw is well cast. With Louis Jean Heydt, Milburn Stone, and Franklyn Farnum.
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