A husband and wife stop to help two men in a car crash only to find they are criminals on the run.

British writer Murray Byrne (James Donald) and his wife Eleanor (Valerie Hobson) stop to help two men in a car crash, only to find they are criminals on the run. These criminals, the desperate Boke (Howard Keel) and his fellow fugitive Jim (David Greene), hold Murray and Eleanor hostage in their country cottage.—Robert