Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
Elenco: Burt Lancaster , Ava Gardner , Edmond O'Brien , Albert Dekker , Sam Levene , Vince Barnett , Virginia Christine , Jack Lambert , Charles D. Brown , Donald MacBride , Charles McGraw , William Conrad , Jeff Corey , Gino Corrado , Frank McLure , Howard Freeman , Charles Middleton , Queenie Smith , Jack Cheatham , William Ruhl , Ernie Adams , George Anderson , Sam Ash , Frank Baker , Oliver Cross , Sam Harris , Jack Lomas , Jack Tornek , John Sheehan , Brooks Benedict , Mike Lally , John Berkes , Edward Biby , Robert Haines , George Hoagland , Florence Wix , Harry Brown , Phil Brown , James Conaty , Noel Cravat , Neal Dodd , Mike Donovan , Dick Gordon , Nolan Leary , Michael Hale , Harry Hayden , Mark Hellinger , Al Hill , Jimmie Horan , Kenner G. Kemp , Paul Kruger , Ethan Laidlaw , Perc Launders , Howard Negley , Vera Lewis , Therese Lyon , John Miljan , Garry Owen , Beatrice Roberts , Wally Rose , Wallace Scott , Ann Staunton , Milton Wallace , Bill Walker .