[1] Steve Clark (Hugh Beaumont) is on a Los Angeles-bound bus and gets off in a small town en route.

He becomes a taxi driver, which leads him to a chance encounter with Julie Saunders (Frances Rafferty), a local woman in her 20s.

However, Clark soon admits to her that the marriage is part of a plan he has crafted, to help him launder his ill-gotten cash—but it also involves murder and will make Julie an accessory to it, against her will.

It opens with Julie Saunders (Frances Rafferty) sentenced to a prison term of ten years for being an accomplice to murder.

A flashback is used to show how a sweet girl like Julie could have gotten into such deep trouble ... Beaumont went on to be Ward Cleaver in television's Leave It to Beaver, but here he's great to watch as a sleazeball and sicko killer.