Gentry is a newspaper reporter with an eye for a good story and a high profile for himself. A scoop presents itself when he receives a phone call from Frank Simms.
He's a cop killer who has escaped from seven years in jail. Frank wants to give himself up but he is afraid that he is a,target for the cops.
Sergeant Charley Nelson warns Gentry that Frank Simms is not only a cop killer. He is a danger to the public at large.
When Gentry looks into Frank's life he is rather surprised. His mother lives in a good part of town, he is from a middle class household.
When Gentry meets up with Frank Simms. He realises just who the target for his revenge is. Something his mother alluded to. His wife Hazel Simms who used him and then sold him out to the cops.
A noirish thriller, although I wondered why did Frank needed Gentry when he just wanted to go for his wife. In the end it really did not amount t much.