It was written by Harriet Frank Jr. and Maurice Geraghty and adapted by Gordon Kahn, from a story by Kenneth Earl.

The film stars Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott and Eve Arden.

[1] The film opens with a middle-weight bout in Madison Square Garden, New York City, where Mike Angelo battles a seemingly superior opponent.

Cut to Mike Gordon, a happy-go-lucky painter in California, upset that cafe owner Sam has let customer Laurie Rogers buy a painting hanging on the wall.

Club owner Rex Durant, a crippled ex-boxer, is impressed that Mike just knocked out a middle-weight contender.

A fight now would be suicide, but Durant promises Mike if he wins the big bout, Laurie will be free.

The extended flashback ends with Mike woozy and taking a beating at Madison Square Garden.

He wrote, "Good sense and dramatic construction went by the wayside in the filming of Whiplash and what is left on the screen is a pointless exposition of brutality, nicely demonstrated, however, by Mr. Clark and Zachary Scott, with Miss Smith providing suitable decoration.