The Crooked Road

剧情简介

John Vincent, a respected member of the business community, is about to marry his sweetheart Louise when his past comes back to haunt him. Unknown to his fiance or friends, years earlier Vincent escaped from Dartmoor, an English prison in which he was an inmate. Twenty years later, his old cellmate, Gobel, tracks Vincent down in Los Angeles and demands $100,000 for his silence. After pacifying his blackmailer with a $5,000 down payment, Vincent plots the perfect crime to eliminate his tormentor by shooting Gobel and placing the blame on Romero, the lover of Gobel's wife Virgie. To accomplish his plan, Vincent signs Romero's name to an incriminating document and then steals his gun. Before he is able to confront Gobel, however, Romero, who wants the blackmail money for himself, decides to poison Gobel by substituting poisoned pills for his medication.