A lawyer becomes rich and successful defending gangsters, but falls in love with a nightclub dancer and resolves to pursue an honest career. Unfortunately, the local Mob boss is not about to let him go straight. Crime drama, starring Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J Cobb and Corey Allen.

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.