On a Caribbean island, a rich landowner's son, Maxwell Fleury, is fighting for political office against black labor leader David Boyeur. As if the contentious election weren't enough, there are plenty of scandals to go around: Boyeur has a secret white lover and Fleury's wife, Sylvia, is also having an affair. And then, of course, there's the small matter of a recently murdered aristocrat.

• Darryl F. Zanuck Productions
• 20th Century Fox
• James Mason
• Joan Fontaine
• Dorothy Dandridge
• Joan Collins
• Michael Rennie
• Harry Belafonte
• Diana Wynyard
• John Williams