In the final weeks of World War II, a severely wounded man awakens with amnesia in a U.S. military field hospital.

As Taylor inquires for Cravat among the clientele, he is noticed by two thugs and evades them by hiding in the dressing room of singer Christy Smith.

Taylor is brutally interrogated by a gangster named Anzelmo to divulge Cravat's location, then deposited at the address on the postcard, Christy's apartment.

Christy introduces Taylor to Mel Phillips, owner of The Cellar, who arranges a meeting with police lieutenant Donald Kendall to discuss Cravat.

Kendall reveals that years ago, a Nazi official who planned to defect sent $2 million in cash to the U.S. for safekeeping, but he was executed before he could escape Germany.

The money was in large denomination bills that could not be spent or exchanged without attracting government attention, so it changed hands many times until it was brought to Los Angeles in December 1942.

Also hunting for Cravat and the $2 million, Anzelmo shares that the money's original carrier was a man named Steele who was murdered at the dock.

Anzelmo has Taylor and Christy brought before him and demands to meet Cravat, but Phillips arrives and helps the pair escape with him to The Cellar.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther wrote:As a straight piece of melodramatic staging, this Twentieth Century-Fox film is all right.

And from this dubious point of departure, the yarn throws logic to the whistling winds as it recounts this veteran's grim endeavors to find out who he is.

Assuming that such a man would bother to endure the harsh resistance that he does, immediately he starts out to follow a thin trail of self-revealing clues, the likelihood of such titanic mysteries in re his person seems logically remote.