Photo journalist Mike Kovac (Charles Bronson) is asked by his friend Ed
(Steve Brodie) to find his wife (Cece Whitney), who has gone missing a few
days ago - which is remarkable inasmuch as Ed is actually cheif of police,
but he doesn't want the force tackle the job because his wife was once
involved with a prostitution racket and he's afraid that some things could
come up that could cost his career. At first, Mike thinks her
involvement with the racket might have something to do with the case, but
he soon finds another lead that leads him over the border to Tijuana,
Mexico, where Ed's wife bought a pair of cufflinks, and he soon figures
the owner of the giftshop she bought them at, Ganza (Wendell Holmes),
might have abused her as a courier for smuggled goods without her
knowledge, and now that these goods - diamonds - have gone missing, he has
abducted her in an effort to make her give them back. Mike has soon
figured the diamonds must have been lost in a carwash, so he lures Ganza
to the place, where he's actually able to find the diamonds too - but he
has also called Ed in to wait in the shadows and ultimately arrest Ganza
on the spot. And in the end, Ed is reunited with his wife of course. Routine
1950's crime drama that is a bit over-constructed to remain believable,
but on the other hand, it comes to life in the final shoot-out in the
carwash, in which Charles Bronson is only armed with a steam cleaner.
Nothing special maybe, but not too bad either.
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