****SPOILERS**** Left alone in the desert with a broken leg millionaire Donald Carson, Robert Ryan, chances of survival are almost nil with his scheming employee and wife Joseph Duncen & Geraldine, Willian Lundigan & Ronda Fleming, purposely letting him die of exposer. By not reporting his whereabouts to the police and sending them on a wild goose chase some 70 in the other direction from where Carson is.
Were not really told if Carson's accident was planned by Duncan & Geraldine or was a golden opportunity that they both took advantage of. Still it gave the two the excuse to have Carson put out of their lives and take over his multi-million dollar investment empire. When he's eventually found dead with them getting off Scot-free by letting the broiling and inhospitable desert do their dirty work.
In the desert with little food and water Carson at first about gave up on surviving. Later as he became more and more outraged by what his wife and her lover did to him his anger drove Carson to bring himself back almost from the dead to have his revenge on them.
Back home Geraldine and Duncan live it up in Carson's mansion expecting any day now to hear the news that he was found dead in the desert. But the longer they wait the more they become curious and fearful that Carson may have, just may have, survived! That would mean 10 to 15 years behind bars not the life of luxury that they were both looking forward to.
Penetrating story about crime and punishment with an amazing twist ending that turns the tables on Carson's would-be murders. With an inferno that's hotter and more deadlier then the worst desert heat wave. Robert Rayn as the millionaire businessman Donald Whitley Carson III who's always used to having things done for him is driven to do things for himself. As he tries to get back to civilization and get even with those who left him for dead in the desert.
Getting help from an old desert prospector Sam Elby, Henry Hull,as Carson tracked by both Duncan and Geraline who came back to the scene of the crime to see if Carson was really dead and if not finish the job by making sure that he is. Carson attacked by Duncan in Elby's cabin, after Duncan knocked out the old man, has it out with him as the place goes up in flames from the carnage that resulted. Geraldine who tried to double-cross her lover Duncan by leaving him out in the desert, like she did to her husband Donald Carson, gets side tracked when the car she was to make her getaway hit a sharp bolder ripping up the gas-tank causing it, the liquid, to flood and damage the drive shaft immobilizing it .
The movie comes full circle when Geraldine is left alone in the desert and of all people her husband Donald Carson, whom she tried to murder, came driving along the wind swept and deserted desert road, with old man Elby, to give her a lift back home for a long stretch in the State penitentiary.
Were not really told if Carson's accident was planned by Duncan & Geraldine or was a golden opportunity that they both took advantage of. Still it gave the two the excuse to have Carson put out of their lives and take over his multi-million dollar investment empire. When he's eventually found dead with them getting off Scot-free by letting the broiling and inhospitable desert do their dirty work.
In the desert with little food and water Carson at first about gave up on surviving. Later as he became more and more outraged by what his wife and her lover did to him his anger drove Carson to bring himself back almost from the dead to have his revenge on them.
Back home Geraldine and Duncan live it up in Carson's mansion expecting any day now to hear the news that he was found dead in the desert. But the longer they wait the more they become curious and fearful that Carson may have, just may have, survived! That would mean 10 to 15 years behind bars not the life of luxury that they were both looking forward to.
Penetrating story about crime and punishment with an amazing twist ending that turns the tables on Carson's would-be murders. With an inferno that's hotter and more deadlier then the worst desert heat wave. Robert Rayn as the millionaire businessman Donald Whitley Carson III who's always used to having things done for him is driven to do things for himself. As he tries to get back to civilization and get even with those who left him for dead in the desert.
Getting help from an old desert prospector Sam Elby, Henry Hull,as Carson tracked by both Duncan and Geraline who came back to the scene of the crime to see if Carson was really dead and if not finish the job by making sure that he is. Carson attacked by Duncan in Elby's cabin, after Duncan knocked out the old man, has it out with him as the place goes up in flames from the carnage that resulted. Geraldine who tried to double-cross her lover Duncan by leaving him out in the desert, like she did to her husband Donald Carson, gets side tracked when the car she was to make her getaway hit a sharp bolder ripping up the gas-tank causing it, the liquid, to flood and damage the drive shaft immobilizing it .
The movie comes full circle when Geraldine is left alone in the desert and of all people her husband Donald Carson, whom she tried to murder, came driving along the wind swept and deserted desert road, with old man Elby, to give her a lift back home for a long stretch in the State penitentiary.