Later, Joe and Loretta Martin, their baby daughter Trudy and dog are driving through a heavy storm when their car gets stuck in mud.

The family break into a nearby house to shelter for the night, finding the seemingly abandoned home stocked with new food and clothing.

Four kidnappers, Tobey, Pitch, Buzz and Gimp return to the house - their hideout – having collected the ransom money for Tom Hansen and released the boy.

The kidnappers decide to test if the ransom money is marked by holding Loretta and Trudy hostage while forcing Joe Martin to go into town with Tobey to spend some of the bills.

A drunk and impatient Pitch plans to kill Loretta and Trudy, but he is prevented when Tobey and Joe return from town just in time.

[4] The New York Times reviewer Andre Sennwald described the film's title change as 'witless' and noted that there was similarity between the plot of Show Them No Mercy and the then recent George Weyerhauser Kidnapping case.