A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story unfolds in flashbacks as the pilot battles the storm and recalls his failures, including a love affair with the wife of his best friend.

• 20th Century Fox
• Richard Widmark
• Linda Darnell
• Veronica Lake
• John Russell
• Gary Merrill
• Walter Kingsford
• Raymond Greenleaf
• Stanley Waxman