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""Joe Sullivan, who is serving time in prison for his role in a robbery, is visited by two women. First by his lawyer's assistant, Ann Martin, who appears to have more than a legal interest in him, and then by his girl friend, Pat Regan. During the visit, Pat informs him that he is to be broken out of prison that evening. Unknown to Joe, the escape has been engineered by sadistic Rick Coyle, the thief for whom Joe took the rap, in the hope that Joe will be killed, thus allowing Coyle to retain Joe's share of the robbery. However, Joe makes a successful escape and is driven away by Pat, but bullet holes in the gas tank force them to abandon the car. As they are planning to sail to Panama from San Francisco in a few days, they go to Ann's apartment to hide out. Aware that the police are setting up roadblocks, however, they decide to flee, taking Ann and her car. Pat is jealous of Ann but Joe wants her along to get them through the roadblocks more easily. After they discover that Ann's car has been identified, they stop at a gas station and steal another customer's car. Meanwhile, Coyle learns that Joe has made a clean getaway and is expecting to meet him the next evening to collect his share of the money, so he orders his henchman Fantail to kill Joe. Joe, Pat and Ann stop at a tavern run by a friend in order to switch cars again. The police surround the remote tavern when a wife murderer tries to hide out there. Eventually the killer runs out shooting and is killed by the police, who then leave, unaware that Joe is there also. Later, the three leave to collect Joe's $50,000 at a rendezvous at Grimshaw's Tackle Store, after which Joe intends to set Ann free. However, Fantail is waiting for Joe at the store, and a fight ensues, during which Ann shoots Fantail with his own gun to prevent him from killing Joe. Horrified by what she has done, Ann runs off, but Joe catches up with her and tells her that she has only wounded Fantail. After Ann and Joe realize that they are in love, Joe sends her away but she is spotted by Fantail, who follows her back to San Francisco and delivers her to Coyle. Before Joe and Pat leave, he decides to eliminate Coyle. Pat begs him not to and suspecting that he has fallen for Ann, admits that she almost phoned the police to turn him in, but changed her mind. As they are about to leave to board the freighter, Coyle discovers in which hotel they are staying and has one of his men phone to inform them that he is holding Ann prisoner. However, Pat takes the call and chooses not to relay the information to Joe. While the police keep tracking him, Joe arranges for Pat and him to be married at sea. Pat breaks down, however, and tells Joe that Coyle has Ann. When Joe rushes to rescue her, Coyle's men are waiting for him in the alley outside Coyle's house, but Joe manages to enter and confronts Coyle. Although Coyle assures him that he will give him the money, he double-crosses Joe again and shoots him. Joe returns fire, injuring Coyle and, as the room catches fire, they struggle until Joe pushes Coyle through a window to his death. Joe then rescues Ann, but as Pat and the police arrive, he dies in Ann's arms"--AFI catalog, 1941-1950."
"Film noir involving a gangster seeking revenge afer being framed and sent to prison. With help from an innocent woman, the ex-con carries out his murderous plan of vengeance, eventually coming face-to-face with the pyromaniac responsible for his stay in prison."@en
"Trapped within the walls of a state penitentiary, Joe Sullivan lives for the chance to avenge himself upon the man who helped put him there: Rick Coyle, a pyromaniac mob boss with a taste for party-girl flambé. Rick helps spring Joe from prison in hopes that the police will gun him down during the escape, but he grossly underestimates Joe's resourcefulness. With the assistance of a world-weary moll and an innocent girl, Joe dodges roadblocks, hitmen and dragnets and carves a bloody path back to his betrayer."
"Trapped within the walls of a state penitentiary, Joe Sullivan lives for the chance to avenge himself upon the man who helped put him there: Rick Coyle, a pyromaniac mob boss with a taste for party-girl flambé. Rick helps spring Joe from prison in hopes that the police will gun him down during the escape, but he grossly underestimates Joe's resourcefulness. With the assistance of a world-weary moll and an innocent girl, Joe dodges roadblocks, hitmen and dragnets and carves a bloody path back to his betrayer."@en
"A tale of duplicity and revenge involving four characters: Joe (O'Keefe), framed by his partner in crime, Rick (Burr), Joe's moll Pat (Trevor) and the idealist Ann (Hunt) who competes with Pat for Joe's affections. What lifts this film well above "B" picture status is the complex way the interaction between the four main characters is conceived and played out and how Mann and Alton have used space and light to enchance atmosphere and meaning. The conventions of film noir are inverted - the "decent" girl and the moll share each other's strengths and weaknesses, foreshadowing the affinity between hero and villain that marks Mann's westerns. Joe is a homme fatal seducing Ann into a world of violence and murder through the promise of sexual fulfillment. Alton's world of shadows imprisons this triangle of characters and visually enhances the villainous ambiguity of Rick. Pat's narration provides a despairingly romantic undercurrent."@en
"Joe Sullivan ontsnapt uit de gevangenis om zich te wreken op degene die hem erin heeft geluisd."
""Le gangster Joe Sullivan tente de s'évader de prison avec la complicité de sa petite amie Pat et de Rick Coyle, le chef de gang qui espère en fait voir l'opération échouer et être ainsi débarrassé de l'homme à qui il doit 50.000 $. Mais l'évasion est un succès, et Joe se réfugie chez Ann, une assistante sociale qui s'est prise de sympathie pour le truand. Celui-ci veut retrouver Rick, et récupérer son argent"--[allociné.fr]."