, 1h31 Directed byFritz Lang OriginUSA GenresDrama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance ThemesFilms about sexuality, Transport films, Rail transport films ActorsGlenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan, Kathleen Case, Anita Stewart Roles Ellen Simmons Rating70% Railroad supervisor Carl Buckley (Broderick Crawford) gets fired from his job. He persuades his seductive wife to pay a visit to an important railroad customer in order to try to get his job back. When Buckley suspects that his sexy, younger wife Vicki (Gloria Grahame) has done more than just talk with the rich old magnate John Owens (Grandon Rhodes), he smacks her around. He then jealously stalks his rival, finally stabbing him to death in a train compartment. Locomotive engineer and Korean War vet, Jeff Warren (Glenn Ford) observed Vicki in the vicinity of the murder, but shields her at the inquest, as she sets his pulse racing. The two begin an affair which is hard to keep quiet in such a small town. Vicki then starts scheming for Warren to kill her increasingly drunk and violent husband.