[2] A respected man, Donald Bashor, commits a robbery and is suspected of two recent murders.

[3] Director Arthur Penn called Bashor "a perfect case of split personality and he knew it.

"[6] The AV Club says the director Arthur Penn "makes extensive use of Bashor's actual statements and a first-person camera to create a faux-documentary style that was decades ahead of its time.

Penn marveled at the improvisatory aspect of Tab Hunter's performance as Bashor, citing an unplanned moment in which Hunter stops to pick up a basket of spilled laundry just after his character has committed murder.

"[8] Ray Stark wanted to make a film version directed by Stevens with Hunter reprising his role, but it was never made.