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.
Faye Emerson
as Hilda Fenchurch
Zachary Scott
as Ronnie Mason
Richard Erdman
as Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)
Rosemary DeCamp
as Dr. Jane Silla
Bruce Bennett
as Dr. Andrew Lang
Mona Freeman
as Anne Fenchurch
John Ridgely
as Thomas Turner
Mary Servoss
as Mrs. Fenchurch
Joyce Compton
as Kate
Virginia Sale
as Mrs. Crockett
Robert Arthur
as Hotel Boy
Monte Blue
as Policeman in Car
