Pawnbroker Whittaker (John McGovern) has been robbed at gunpoint, but
when the loot is recovered from the female driver of the getaway car, $
10,000 are missing from it - and there are just two people who might have
taken it, the cop (George Mitchell) who has arrested the getaway car
driver, and Whittaker himself. So police woman Casey Jones (Beverly
Garland) goes undercover, posing as the getaway car driver trying to
blackmail Whittaker - but he bluntly throws her out of his office. But
that night, Casey receives a visitor, Whittaker's secretary Louise (Mary
James), who tries to buy Casey's silence - and is arrested for it. When
questioned at the precinct, she disputes having had anything to do with
the disappearance of the money but refuses to give even one good reason
why she wanted to pay Casey ... until Whittaker arrives, and it is found
out that he himself had stolen the money after all for reasons of
insurance fraud, and his secretary wanted to pay Casey off behind his back
because she is in love with him. In the end, a bit inexplicably, there is
a happy ending for everybody, even Whittaker. Rather typical
late 1950's crime drama that takes itself way too seriously to be taken
serious, and that is way too simplistic in approach to actually convince.
Beverly Garland in the lead isn't bad though.
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