A hard-nosed detective believes the only way to get results is to come down hard on suspects - until a meeting with a blind girl, whose mentally ill brother has fallen under suspicion of murder, causes him to soften his approach. Nicholas Ray's thriller, starring Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper and Ed Begley.

A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.