A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when the mob offers big money for his wiretapping services.
Acting
Bill Williams sells engineer-turned-crook vulnerability hard.
Production
Real wiretap gear from era adds documentary grime.
Director
Dick Ross
Bill Williams
James Arthur Vaus, Jr.
Georgia Lee
Alice Rosealba Vaus
Douglas Kennedy
Charles Rumsden
Richard Benedict
Romato
Stanley Clements
Tony
Paul Picerni
Herbie
Steve Conte
Henchman
Phil Tead
Mr. Wiggins
Howard Wendell
Prison Chaplain
Melinda Casey
Helen Park - Kid Sister (as Melinda Plowman)
Art Gilmore
Narrator (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Produced by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, this was mainstream Hollywood's strangest fusion of noir thrills and altar-call messaging. Real wiretapper Jim Vaus Jr. plays himself in a bizarre cameo.
Director Dick Ross was Graham's go-to filmmaker; this was their attempt to Trojan-horse evangelical content into crime-picture packaging for secular audiences.
US
