It stars Heather Angel as a schoolteacher who in one day becomes Public Enemy Number One in Pennsylvania.

The film is based on Dalton Trumbo's short story "Lady Takes a Chance".

On the last day of the school year, plain 25-year-old teacher Anne Gladden has her student Willy write punishment lines on the blackboard.

Handsome turns out to be a killer, he stole the car she is in and on the floor of the back seat is a body, that he and his partner Red, have murdered.

A rich elderly woman, Mrs Breckenbridge, pulls up in her chauffeur-driven limousine and while they are distracted, Larry switches license plates.

Fortunately, Larry manages to knock Red out and Handsome runs away after Anne burns him with a cigarette.

When the pair return the car to the park for the police to find, two other gang members take them at gunpoint to Slick.

The film is Dalton Trumbo's second screen credit and the last of Jack Skirball's Arcadia Pictures.