Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.
Robert Mitchum
as Dan Milner
Jane Russell
as Lenore Brent
Vincent Price
as Mark Cardigan
Tim Holt
as Bill Lusk
Charles McGraw
as Thompson / Narrator
Marjorie Reynolds
as Helen Cardigan
Raymond Burr
as Nick Ferraro
Leslie Banning
as Jennie Stone
Jim Backus
as Myron Winton
Philip Van Zandt
as Jose Morro
Jack Mylong-Münz
as Martin Krafft
Carleton G. Young
as Gerald Hobson