Danny Haley's bookie operation is shut down, so he and his pals need money; when Danny meets Arthur Winant, a sucker from out of town, he decoys him into a series of poker games where eventually Winant loses $5000 that isn't his...then hangs himself. But it seems Winant had a shadowy, protective elder brother who believes in personal revenge. And each of the card players in turn feels a faceless doom inexorably closing in. Dark streets and sexy torch-singer Fran lend ambience.《杀机四起》是威廉·迪亚特尔于1950 年在美国 导演，由查尔顿·赫斯顿,丽莎贝斯·斯科特,韦薇卡·琳德佛斯,迪恩·贾格尔,唐·德福等出演,剧中使用英语对白,是一部恐怖片电影。