Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.

• Universal International Pictures
• John Payne
• Joan Caulfield
• Dan Duryea
• Shelley Winters
• Dorothy Hart
• Richard Rober
• Dan O'Herlihy
• Nicholas Joy