

An insurance detective encounters numerous surprises when he is assigned to investigate a meticulously-planned train robbery in Arizona.
Direction
Mark Stevens directs himself with surprising visual confidence.
Writing
Screenplay packs three movies of twists into 79 minutes.

Director
Mark Stevens
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during noir's dying days as A-pictures swallowed the genre; Stevens self-financed partly to prove TV actors could direct.
Felicia Farr filmed this between two Kubrick projects; her simmering intelligence here convinced Billy Wilder to cast her in 'Kiss Me, Stupid.'