The film, produced by Allied Artists and directed by Lesley Selander, starred Ann Dvorak in the title role.

Claire, an American-born Filipina living in Manila, is working as a cafe entertainer on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Her husband is captured, and she watches as he is killed by machine gun fire in the Bataan Death March after he defies the order of a cruel Japanese soldier not to drink from typhoid contaminated water.

She then joins the Filipino resistance, and in order to obtain intelligence to send back to the United States, she opens a nightclub catering to Japanese officers.

"[2] On the other hand, Hal Erickson noted in AllMovie that the film "handles its more brutal scenes with a marked degree of tastefulness".