***SPOILERS*** Taking off to Mexico with his boss John Wheeler's, Dan Duryea, stolen $200,000.00 in cash as well as his girl Laura, Marta Toren, Frank "Doc" Manson, James Mason, is stopped in his tracks by one of Wheeler's hoods Arnie, Jack Elam, who snuck into his getaway car looking to rip him off. With "Doc" stepping hard on the breaks Arnie after falling backwards and getting pistol whipped by "Doc" ends up dead with a broken neck. This also changes "Doc's" plans as he and Laura get a used car to continue their flight to safety in Mexico with Wheeler in not knowing the car license number having no way to find him. Wheeler mad as hell and vowing revenge sends his top goon Ollie, William Conrad, to find both "Doc" and his unfaithful, in dropping him for "Doc", girlfriend Laura and give them the business:a bullet in the back of the head!
It's in the wilds of Mexico that "Doc" in seeing the abject poverty there decides to help both the people as well as animals living, as well as dying, there with his expertise in medicine. It's not long when "Doc" while preforming a delicate operation is confronted by a gang of Mexican bandits who noticed his rollex watch, worth some $10,000.00, and want to lift it off him. Convincing the head bandit to get operated on because he's been infected with deadly gangrene gives "Doc" enough time for him and Laura to be rescued by the local police who end up blowing him away.
****SPOLIERS**** Despite "Doc" & Laura being safe from Wheeler's goons in Mexico he together with her decides to go back to the states and give him back his $200,000.00 as a show of good will. This soon backfires when Ollie who's just had enough from Wheeler blasts him and decides to take all the stolen cash for himself when "Doc" shows up with it. Ridicules but at the same time unexpected ending with "Doc" now free from danger with both Wheeler and Ollie now history becomes history himself by , while crossing at night in a blinding rainstorm, looking the wrong way on a one way street!
It's in the wilds of Mexico that "Doc" in seeing the abject poverty there decides to help both the people as well as animals living, as well as dying, there with his expertise in medicine. It's not long when "Doc" while preforming a delicate operation is confronted by a gang of Mexican bandits who noticed his rollex watch, worth some $10,000.00, and want to lift it off him. Convincing the head bandit to get operated on because he's been infected with deadly gangrene gives "Doc" enough time for him and Laura to be rescued by the local police who end up blowing him away.
****SPOLIERS**** Despite "Doc" & Laura being safe from Wheeler's goons in Mexico he together with her decides to go back to the states and give him back his $200,000.00 as a show of good will. This soon backfires when Ollie who's just had enough from Wheeler blasts him and decides to take all the stolen cash for himself when "Doc" shows up with it. Ridicules but at the same time unexpected ending with "Doc" now free from danger with both Wheeler and Ollie now history becomes history himself by , while crossing at night in a blinding rainstorm, looking the wrong way on a one way street!