Patricia Knight is the striking beauty here, actually vying with Rita Hayworth and Veronica Lake for a perfect noir lady with a mysterious and interesting past, being released after five years in prison on parole, while her parole officer is Cornel Wilde, who has to be cautious about her and caution her seriously, since she is mixed up with a very doubtful guy, who says he has been waiting for her five years, but you wouldn't trust him. Later on in the film it is suggested that she actually took on the sentence to let him remain free, which opens the possibility that the murder she has been sentenced for actually was committed by him, by this thread his never followed up, so we shall never learn what really happened. Nevertheless, Cornel Wilde trusts her and really loves her and risks his life and career and future for her, and that's the adventure. It could really end bad for both of them, it looks very bad indeed at times, but they have many narrow escapes, at one time "borrowing" the car of a just married couple with boasting signs and tin cans and all, just to get away. We never learn what happened to the married couple. Cornel Wilde plays an Italian and live with his kid brother and blind mother, and the scenes from their home are perhaps the best in the film. It is a real Douglas Sirk sentimental story with sinister noir traits, so it is difficult to pinpoint the film into any special genre. The acting, the music, the photography, the story, everything is good, nothing is missing, while of course the end will come as a surprise both to the audience and to the runaway couple.