The film was produced and directed by William Berke, written by Henry Kane and stars Robert Loggia and Gerald O'Loughlin.

Steve Carella and Mike Maguire are the lead investigators on the case, but they cannot make any progress and their work is hampered by the interference of reporter Hank Miller.

When Maguire is shot and killed, Carella must comfort his partner's wife Alice and then gets drunk with Hank, inadvertently revealing his suspicions about the case and placing his girlfriend Teddy, a deaf-mute author, in jeopardy.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Howard Thompson wrote:The most effective thing about this rather routine, makeshift little melodrama is the abundance of comparatively fresh faces.

Henry Kane, the scenarist, tries to mirror the atmosphere of a metropolitan precinct headquarters, but the inept direction of William Berke, who also produced, synthetically flattens the plot, even with its original jolting denouement.