一名警官自杀了，侦探戴夫（格伦·福特 Glenn Ford 饰）奉命调查这起蹊跷的案件。本来一切都按照程序正常的行进着，在快要结案之际，一个女人忽然现身，她声称她有证据证明这位警察并非自杀，而是死于谋杀。与此同时，戴夫亦收到了上级的命令，命他停止调查此案，这让本就起了疑心的戴夫感到更加的不对劲。
随着调查的深入，黑帮老大勒加纳（Alexander Scourby 饰）的身影浮出水面，让戴夫没有想到的是，他的挖掘真相的举动，竟然为自己引来了杀身之祸，虽然他幸运的逃过了一劫没有让杀手得逞，却牵连了一名无辜者。戴夫的正义之魂被点燃了，他发誓要和恶势力斗智斗勇到最后。

Joe Norson, a poor letter carrier with a sweet, pregnant wife, yields to momentary temptation and steals $30,000 belonging to a pair of ruthless blackmailers who won't stop at murder. After a few days of soul-searching, Joe offers to return the money, only to find that the "friend" he left it with has absconded. Now every move Joe makes plunges him deeper into trouble, as he's pursued and pursuing through the shadowy, sinister side of New York.

鲁道夫·马泰导演，奥斯卡影帝威廉·霍尔登主演，影片巧妙的利用火车车站和地下隧道的因素制造戏剧张力，短小精悍，氛围紧张。侦破绑架案的过程拍得比较紧凑，进入各种隧道追逐的戏码也让人觉得新奇紧张。

主要讲述了男主角（印第安纳琼斯的扮相）带领一群考古学家到玻利维亚去寻找印加人的宝物，在探险的过程当中收获了爱情，也遭遇自己朋友的出卖，而在最关键的时刻保护了代表印加人最高的荣誉：黄金大盘。按照1954年的电影工业来说，此片拍摄手法不俗。有爱情、有历史、有探险、有悬疑。就是没有中文字幕（也没有英文字幕）！卡罗维发利

At Los Alamos, New Mexico, the maximum-security "atomic city" of U.S. nuclear-weapons research, top atomic scientist Frank Addison has a normal, middle-American life with his wife and son...until the boy is kidnapped by enemy agents to extort H-bomb secrets. Result, a fast moving chase thriller with some parental soul-searching.

A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico.