 Unscrupulous showgirl Flaxy Martin (Virginia Mayo) involves young attorney Walter Colby (Zachary Scott) with mobster Hap Richie (Douglas Kennedy). A girl is murdered, with the evidence pointing to Flaxy, and Colby takes the rap and gets a 20 year sentence. San Malko (Tom D Andrea) gives Colby the clue to the real killer and, enroute to prison, he escapes and is found by Nora Carson (Dorothy Malone) who shelters him. After escaping from one of Richie s gunmen, Walter heads for Flaxy s apartment, where she admits she double-crossed him.