Millionaire industrialist, Walter Willams, has it all, power, money, success and a supposed, idyllic life with his young, beautiful wife, Irene. When a business trip to Denver arises, Walter decides to take his wife along, hoping to turn the scenic ride over the mountains via Lake Tahoe into a mini vacation. However, things begin to go awry when Irene claims shes ill and cant go but insists Walter give a ride to her poor cousin, who is hitchhiking his way home to Evanston, Illinois. The cousin is actually Irenes lover, Jim Torrence, and he is there to carry out his and Irenes plot to murder Walter. But in a twist of fate, after Jims attack upon Walter, and while Jim is fleeing the scene, he is killed in a head-on collision. Once the bloodied, very shaken, and very bewildered Walter awakens and pieces together what all had happened, he claims amnesia and goes into hiding, with the hope of somehow bringing Irene to justice.

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• Stars Brian Donlevy (Beau Geste), Ella Raines (Phantom Lady), Charles Coburn (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), Helen Walker (Brewsters Millions [1945])
• From Producer Leo C. Popkin (D.O.A. [1949])
• Written by Dorothy Davenport (Human Wreckage, Broken Laws)
• From director Arthur Lubin (Phantom of the Opera (1943), The Incredible Mr. Limpet)