Carole Nelson (
Kay Francis) and her husband, Niles Nelson (
John Eldredge), are successful surgeons at the County Hospital. When Joe Gurney (
Humphrey Bogart), a gangster with a Napoleonic complex, admires their skill in operating on and saving the life of a henchman, Gurney forces Nelson, who has a gambling problem and needs the money, into working for his gang, until Nelson is killed in a police raid. Carole goes to a small town where Gurney's gang is hiding out, hoping to avenge her husband's death.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>