Doc Erwin Riedenschneider has just been released from prison and immediately seeks out financial backing for a heist which he has been plotting, the robbery of a jewellery store. He puts together a group of men consisting of Dix Handley, a tough guy, Gus, a bar owner and Louis Ciavelli, a family man. The robbery is a success and Dix and Doc take the jewels to their buyer, Alonzo 'Lon' Emmerich. Unfortunately, Emmerich does not have the money for them; he was hoping to be able to coerce the group into giving him the jewels under the false pretence of fencing them. He would then be able to sell them himself with the help of his business partner, Bob Brannom...

Debut of Strother Martin.

Doc Riedenschneider:
That copper, he recognized me.


Cobby:
How'd you know he was a copper?


Doc Riedenschneider:
I can smell one a block off.


Cobby:
Oh, don't worry about Ditrich. He's on my payroll. Practically a partner. Me and him, we're like that.

[Cobby holds up his index and middle finger]


Doc Riedenschneider:
Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

Continuity: Louis Ciavelli walks along a long straight underground passageway and breaks through the wall on his right into an office. Once in the office, he opens a door in the same wall right beside the hole he's just made. So from inside the office, there's a door in the wall leading to some stairs. From the other side of the wall it's just a solid wall.