Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
Acting
Janis Carter's ice-queen smolder could freeze hell.
Cinematography
Shadows so thick you could trip over them.
Director
Richard Wallace
Glenn Ford
Mike Lambert
Janis Carter
Paula Craig
Barry Sullivan
Steve Price
Edgar Buchanan
Jeff Cunningham
Karen Morley
Beth
Jim Bannon
Jack Woodworth
Art Smith
Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Lillian Wells
Girl in Coffee Shop (uncredited)
Stanley Andrews
(uncredited)
Walter Baldwin
(uncredited)
Jack Bailey
(uncredited)
Eugene Borden
(uncredited)
Al Bridge
(uncredited)
Paul E. Burns
(uncredited)
Charles Cane
(uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Glenn Ford filmed this during his military furlough, squeezing noir between service commitments.
Janis Carter's Paula is a textbook postwar femme fatale—sexually liberated, morally bankrupt, and ultimately punished for both.
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