This Four Star Playhouse drama turned out to be a pilot for a Four Star series that starred Frank Lovejoy in the character he plays in this drama. Here we Meet McGraw and like that police detective that Peter Falk made popular we never do learn McGraw's first name.
McGraw as portrayed by Lovejoy is a laconic wisecracking private eye who has a shady reputation and is known for taking on jobs that others shy away from.
Audrey Totter co-stars as one of those women who ought to come with a warning label. She's the wife of a mobster and she wants McGraw as a bodyguard because she's trying to break from her husband. She has a small mob of her own with Paul Picerni, Peter Whitney, and of all people Ellen Corby who is one ace pickpocket.
Of course Totter is not telling McGraw the truth, but Lovejoy pieces it together the way Bogey did in The Maltese Falcon. And we know what that meant for the femme fatale there.
Lovejoy and Totter make the small screen sizzle.