Mala Powers is sent on a business trip by her employer, John Harding. When she gets to her train compartment, there's a man with a gun, and a dead woman. After she fails to convince him that she is not whoever he is looking for, he knocks her out. A cop wakes her, and prepares to take her to jail. However, Miss Powers escapes and hitches a ride with Jacques Bergerac and his son back to Los Angeles. After Bergerac drops his son off with his ex-wife (with many recriminations), he returns to Miss Powers and tries to find out what's bothering her. She evades his questions, and finds her old boyfriend, whom she was letting stay in her apartment while she was gone, dead.
It's a story that grows more and more dire as secrets are revealed, things she remembers not being where she left them -- including the ex-boyfriend -- until her resolve crumbles and she falls into a paranoid rant.
It's a pretty good movie up until that point, with the audience beginning to question the evidence of their own eyes. One of the IMDb reviewers calls it "Hitchcock on a budget" and that's not a bad description if you ignore the lack of visual flair. The result is an intriguing movie .... at least until the denouement, which is a bit of a disappointment.
It's a story that grows more and more dire as secrets are revealed, things she remembers not being where she left them -- including the ex-boyfriend -- until her resolve crumbles and she falls into a paranoid rant.
It's a pretty good movie up until that point, with the audience beginning to question the evidence of their own eyes. One of the IMDb reviewers calls it "Hitchcock on a budget" and that's not a bad description if you ignore the lack of visual flair. The result is an intriguing movie .... at least until the denouement, which is a bit of a disappointment.