After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.

• Warner Bros. Pictures
• Faye Emerson
• Zachary Scott
• Richard Erdman
• Rosemary DeCamp
• Bruce Bennett
• Mona Freeman
• John Ridgely
• Mary Servoss