Cappy then heads for the Latin American town of San Cristóbal, with plans to murder singer Clare Shepperd, Spilato's estranged girlfriend.

Clare and Lambert take an aerial tramway to La Cumbre ("The Summit"), a secluded mountaintop village, and enjoy a stroll through the town, unaware that Cappy is pursuing them.

They watch a sexually provocative dance performed by a young man and woman, whose husband, Vasco, drags her off in a jealous rage, kills her, and is arrested.

Upset by the event, Clare and Lambert decide to stay at a hotel, since the aerial lift has ended service for the night and there is no other way in or out of La Cumbre.

When Clare is alone at the hotel, Cappy barges into her room and makes her promise to meet him later on the cable car, where, he claims, they will reunite and flee together, otherwise he will kill Lambert.

Clare, Lambert, Cappy, Vasco, and other passengers are left stranded in midair, and the remaining cable begins to fray, threatening to send them all to their doom.

[3] Critic Jeff Stafford believes the 3-D format was often unjustly maligned and in the early 1950s, was on the verge of "moving beyond the exploitable 'in your face' aspects" into more creative uses of the technology when the fad died.

He makes the case that the final scenes of Second Chance were "much more intense in 3-D when the depth of field and spatial relationships create[d] a genuine sense of vertigo.

A rivet-eyed, onetime prelim fighter from the Pennsylvania coal country, Palance (né Palahniuk) [sic] gave terrifying performances in Shane (1953) and Sudden Fear, (1952) has since become the hottest heavy in Hollywood.

His face alone, as thin and cruel as a rust-pitted spade, is enough to-frighten a strong man; and to make matters worse, he seems to emit hostile energy, like something left overnight in a plutonium pile.