An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits.
A down-on-his-luck ex-G.I. finds himself a suspect in an armored car robbery. When he's finally released after the real robbery vehicle is found, after having been worked-over by the police, he sets out to discover who set him up, and why. The trail leads him into Mexico and a web of hired thugs and a corrupt cop.—[email protected]
In Kansas City, a mastermind who the others will eventually coin "Mr. Big" has assembled a team of three others to pull off a bank heist, their total take $1.2 million. Mr. Big gave them no real option but to accept his offer to be part of the team, a cool $300,000 apiece.. Only Mr. Big knows the identities of the three, they in turn not knowing his or the others' identities in that Mr. Big has mandated that they all wear a mask in any of their interactions, including during the heist and the planned loot split later. The police apprehend a surprised flower delivery driver, Joe, due to the circumstantial evidence that Joe one of the four perpetrators. While the police are eventually forced to release Joe when they find the actual robbery vehicle, the damage has already been done to his reputation and this his ability to earn a living. As such, Joe is determined to find the four and bring them to justice. While he has the problem as do the three hired hands of not being able to identify them even if he is able to locate them, Mr. Big has the upper hand in that he can identify them all and that he has an end goal about which the others are unaware which dictates his actions. Someone close to Mr. Big, an unsuspecting bystander, becomes unwittingly involved in the situation, which makes Joe's task even more complicated.—Huggo
A bank robbey in Kansas City's planned by a masked men, using 3 criminals - also masked (and everyone unknown to one another). Part of the plan's to frame the driver of the bank's next-door florist, by using a getaway truck which looks alike. That driver, a now-hard-working ex-con realises his only chance is to get his reputation, and life back, is to find those who did the crime.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Joe Rolfe (John Payne) is a ex-con delivering flowers to the local businesses in Kansas City. When disgruntled ex-cop Timothy Foster (Preston S. Foster) cases a local payroll armored car for a holdup he takes into account the schedule of Rolfe and his deliveries as he plans his robbery. Foster contacts three crooks separately to help with the crime while keeping his own identity secret with a mask he blackmails them with past crimes and a guarantee of a $300 thousand-dollar payout for each. Pulling in Peter Harris (Jack Elam), Boyd Kane (Neville Brand), and Tony Romano (Lee Van Cleef), Foster as Mr. Big pulls off the robbery of the armored car right after one of Rolfe's deliveries by using a duplicate flower van. Rolfe is arrested and brutally interrogated by the police. Eventually cleared when the police find the duplicate robbery vehicle Rolfe is determined to clear his name and sets out to find the crew that set him up. He tracks Harris to a gambling joint in Tijuana Mexico and takes on his identity after Harris is killed and travels to a resort town of Barados Mexico to confront the rest of the crooks. Once there he meets Foster's daughter Helen (Coleen Gray) who has come to surprise her father. Rolfe and Helen develop an immediate attraction for each other and Foster attempts to keep them apart, as he knows Joe is an ex-con and is impersonating Harris. As the time for splitting up the money draws near Kane and Tony are aware Rolfe is not Harris and a dangerous confrontation with Mr. Big appears inevitable.
