A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is now a park ranger, for help. He hides her out in a cabin up in the mountains, and her husband goes on the hunt for both of them.
Acting
Elisha Cook Jr. elevates every scene he's in.
Practical Effects
Real Sierra Nevada locations on a shoestring budget.
Director
William Berke
Robert Lowery
Don Bradley
Ellen Drew
Kay Downey
Regis Toomey
Steve Downey
Eddie Quillan
Willie Dinsmire
Elisha Cook Jr.
Whitey
Ralph Dunn
Chief Sanford
Walter Baldwin
Uncle Sam Bates
Virginia Sale
Aletha Bates
Byron Foulger
Harvey Bates
Alex Callam
Detective Dave Lewis
Eddie Kane
Waiter
Lee Phelps
Police Dispatcher in montage (archive footage) (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in just six days on location at Big Bear Lake for Paramount's low-budget Pine-Thomas unit.
A quintessential 'Poverty Row' programmer—made to fill double bills, now a time capsule of 1940s B-noir desperation.
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