When a man stops in a small town to get gas for his car, he runs into unexpected trouble.
A man proposes a bizarre wager: to win a sports car, a down-and-out gambler must light his lighter 10 times in a
row - or lose a finger.
A little girl wants to play army with the boys, but they tell her she needs to have a gun before she can join them.
Professor John Tate is a likable even-tempered college professor whos beautiful wife, Lisa is anxiety prone trying to recover from increased nightmares and paranoid thoughts. In reality, a man has been stalking her. The stalker breaks into their house when she is alone and rapes her. Tate, angered by the law authorities’ poor efforts to track down the man, is now looking at dealing with probable increased anxiety and mental issues with his wife. On their way home from the hospital, Lisa spots a man she tells her husband is the rapist. Her hysteria helps enrage Tate. He kidnaps the man enabling him take the man somewhere to kill him.
Attempting to stop Drummond from killing innocent people, Margaret comes to realize that his gun is loaded with blanks and that he is committing a different kind of suicide.
Jean Simmons stars as a lonely spinster who uses her niece's identity to correspond with a convict. Then she hears he has escaped and may be making for her home.