***SPOILERS*** After being called to investigate a prowler by Susan Gilvray, Evelyn Keyes, L.A cop Webb Garwood, Van "Hef" Heflin, tries to hit on her knowing that she, a former showgirl,is all alone in the house at night with her crabby husband John, Sherry Hall, away spinning records on radio as L.A's premier night owl D.J. It isn't long after, about two hours, that Webb makes his move on Susan by again showing up at her home to check out things that he might have overlooked the first time that he and his partner Officer Bud Crocker, John Maxwel, were there.
You can see right away that Webb is a real piece of work in how he gets to work on Susan by forcing himself on her without the slightest fear of being reported to his superiors for his gross and unethical,for a law enforcement officer, conduct. What's even more surprising is that Susan after first rebuffing the brute falls madly in love with Webb for reasons known only to herself. You soon realize that what turned Webb onto to Susan, besides her good looks, is an insurance policy he found, while looking for matches, in her house on her husband John for $62,000.00 if he dies of anything other then natural causes!
Setting John up for the kill Webb fakes being a prowler that has John, who must have had the night off, run out in the night in his pajamas and and gun in hand to check things out. Hiding in the bushes Webb blows John away and also shoots himself in the left arm with John's, what looked like, cap pistol to make it all look like self defense! Now with Susan free and the big payday, the $62,000.00 in insurance money, at hand Webb marries her as well as quits the police force, with a disability pension, knowing that his and Susan's future is financially secure. That's until Webb finds out that Susan is four months pregnant, with his baby, just a week after the two were married!
***SPOILERS*** With the fact that Susan lied about not knowing Webb to the newspapers as well as under oath, at Webb's departmental trial, and that her late husband John was unable to have children if that fact were to come out Webb would find himself in deep you know what with both the L.A police and justice department! It's then that Webb concocts a plan for Susan to have their baby in secret and later, after it was given to an orphanage, adopt it. The only problem is that can the doctor who eventually delivers the child be trusted to keep his or her mouth shut!
Exciting final in the ghost town of Calico in the Mojave Desert as Webb's "fool proof" scheme completely unravels together with him as he's hunted and gunned down when he's desperately trying to climb a mountain. What Webb expected to find on the mountain's summit, it couldn't have been freedom, only he knows but he's in no position, by being dead, to tell anyone!
P.S By the way the voice of John Gilvary was that of black listed writer Dalton Trumbo who, under an assumed named, co-wrote the movie's screenplay.
You can see right away that Webb is a real piece of work in how he gets to work on Susan by forcing himself on her without the slightest fear of being reported to his superiors for his gross and unethical,for a law enforcement officer, conduct. What's even more surprising is that Susan after first rebuffing the brute falls madly in love with Webb for reasons known only to herself. You soon realize that what turned Webb onto to Susan, besides her good looks, is an insurance policy he found, while looking for matches, in her house on her husband John for $62,000.00 if he dies of anything other then natural causes!
Setting John up for the kill Webb fakes being a prowler that has John, who must have had the night off, run out in the night in his pajamas and and gun in hand to check things out. Hiding in the bushes Webb blows John away and also shoots himself in the left arm with John's, what looked like, cap pistol to make it all look like self defense! Now with Susan free and the big payday, the $62,000.00 in insurance money, at hand Webb marries her as well as quits the police force, with a disability pension, knowing that his and Susan's future is financially secure. That's until Webb finds out that Susan is four months pregnant, with his baby, just a week after the two were married!
***SPOILERS*** With the fact that Susan lied about not knowing Webb to the newspapers as well as under oath, at Webb's departmental trial, and that her late husband John was unable to have children if that fact were to come out Webb would find himself in deep you know what with both the L.A police and justice department! It's then that Webb concocts a plan for Susan to have their baby in secret and later, after it was given to an orphanage, adopt it. The only problem is that can the doctor who eventually delivers the child be trusted to keep his or her mouth shut!
Exciting final in the ghost town of Calico in the Mojave Desert as Webb's "fool proof" scheme completely unravels together with him as he's hunted and gunned down when he's desperately trying to climb a mountain. What Webb expected to find on the mountain's summit, it couldn't have been freedom, only he knows but he's in no position, by being dead, to tell anyone!
P.S By the way the voice of John Gilvary was that of black listed writer Dalton Trumbo who, under an assumed named, co-wrote the movie's screenplay.