Special Features: Introduction by Eddie Muller

Jacques Tourneur's other great contribution to the noir canon is this paranoid thriller, made 10 years after OUT OF THE PAST. Jittery James Vanning (Aldo Ray) is being followed around sweltering L.A. by nosy insurance investigator Ben Fraser (James Gregory), as well as gangsters played by Brian Keith and Rudy Bond, who know that Vanning knows too much about a heist they pulled the year before. When the gangsters grab Vanning and take him for a ride, the past comes crashing back in a classic noir flashback, transporting the action to wintry Wyoming, where Vanning was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Anne Bancroft and Jocelyn Brando (Marlon's sister) co-star in this slick thriller with cinematography by Burnett Guffey (BONNIE AND CLYDE). DIR Jacques Tourneur; SCR Stirling Silliphant, from the novel by David Goodis; PROD Ted Richmond. U.S., 1956, b&w, 78 min. NOT RATED