A sailor on leave wakes up from a night of heavy drinking with a large sum of money. His attempt to return it leads him to stumble on a murdered woman and implicate himself as the prime suspect. With the aid of a dancer, he tries to find the real killer - but only has four hours before he must return to duty. Murder mystery based on Cornell Woolrich's novel, starring Susan Hayward and Bill Williams.

A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.