On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.

• Pendulum Productions
• Columbia Pictures
• George Peppard
• Jean Seberg
• Richard Kiley
• Charles McGraw
• Madeleine Sherwood
• Robert F. Lyons
• Frank Marth
• Marj Dusay