The film was directed by Robert Parrish, a former child star and later editor in his debut as a director.

He is released five years later when an "eyewitness", a one-legged ex-Marine named Delong, suddenly appears and provides a fake alibi.

Rocky insists he was not involved and sets out to find out who framed him, hoping to free his friend Danny Morgan, still in prison for the same crime.

Police Lieutenant Gus Cobb meets Rocky when he arrives in Los Angeles and tells him that he will be under 24-hour surveillance.

Rocky knows that bookie Louis Castro is the mastermind behind the robbery and believes that he also the person who framed him and sent him to prison.

He also claims that Rocky's friend Morgan participated in the robbery and committed the murder and that Nancy knows the truth and has her husband's share.

[3] Time Out's modern on-line magazine review says: "it's the kind of movie in which, told to expect someone extra for dinner, delicious Fleming smiles 'OK, I'll put more water in the soup'.

With excellent support players like a young, thin (for him) William Conrad and Jay Adler, this is a fast, crisp and laconic delight.

"[5] The restoration premiered at the UCLA Festival of Preservation on March 14, 2011[5] and was screened at other North American cities in 2011 including Vancouver.