Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
Edmond O'Brien
Burt Lancaster
Ava Gardner
Albert Dekker
Sam Levene
Vince Barnett
Virginia Christine
Jack Lambert
Charles D. Brown
Donald MacBride
Charles McGraw
William Conrad
Jeff Corey
Gino Corrado
Frank McLure