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A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies teller Leon Poole as inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Pooles young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. About three years later, Poole (until then a model prisoner) abruptly takes his chance to kill a guard and escape. Its clear during the ensuing manhunt that Poole is obsessed in pursuit of a single end; but not quite the end everyone supposes.
Despite the perpetrators escaping with the money, milquetoast bank employee Leon Poole is seen in a more heroic light when he confronts the crooks in a robbery in progress. Later in apprehending Poole in discovering he was the inside person on the robbery, Police Detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Pooles wife, Doris Poole, in the crossfire, she apparently a somewhat innocent bystander in not knowing about her husbands involvement in the crime until after the fact. Almost three years into his ten year prison sentence, he largely seen as a model prisoner, Poole is able to escape. Evidence indicates that Poole is that one in a thousand convict who truly meant it when he said that he would get back at Wagner. However, Wagner and his team are unaware what Poole intends is for Wagner to feel the same pain as him, Pooles intended target being Wagners wife, Lila Wagner. The situation is made all the more difficult for the Wagners in their marital issue, namely Lila long having wanted her husband to give up the police life.
Joseph Cotten
Detective Sam Wagner
Rhonda Fleming
Lila Wagner
Wendell Corey
Leon Poole
Alan Hale Jr.
Denny
Michael Pate
Detective Chris Gillespie
John Larch
Otto Flanders
Dee J. Thompson
Grace Flanders
John Beradino
Mac
Virginia Christine
Mary Gillespie
Paul Bryar
Greg Boyd
Stanley Adams
Honor Farm Guard
Leon Alton
Bank Robber
Don Beddoe
Mr. Freeman
Gail Bonney
Mrs. Andrews
John Cliff
Ed
Richard Collier
Assistant District Attorney
Martha Crawford
Doris Poole
Richard H. Cutting
Judge
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