One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.

• DirectorRobert Aldrich
• Release28 April 1955
• Genre
  Mystery / Thriller
• Duration1h 46m
• Budget$410,000
• Revenue$726,000
• Rate
  

  7.206
  388 reviews
• Productions

  Parklane Pictures Inc., United Artists