Poisoned and running out of time, Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) races through San Francisco to solve his own murder before the deadly toxin claims his life.
Treasury agents enlist a convict to infiltrate a drug ring in 1940s San Francisco, following a deadly trail that leads to a shady Canadian trading company.
A small town's peace is shattered when an assassin seizes a home for an ambush on the U.S. President, forcing a widow and a sheriff into a deadly standoff.