A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.

• Crown Productions
• United Artists
• Joseph Cotten
• Rhonda Fleming
• Wendell Corey
• Alan Hale Jr.
• Michael Pate
• John Larch
• Dee J. Thompson
• John Beradino