在这部双雄斗智犯罪/剧情/黑色电影片中,Stark, claustrophobic thriller about an anti-Semitic soldier who kills a Jewish war veteran, evading detection by dint of his loyal friends' protection. But a detective is determined that the crime will not go unsolved and sets about laying a trap for the murderer. Based on the novel 'The Brick Foxhole' by Richard Brooks.
Homicide Capt. Finlay finds evidence that one or more of a group of demobilized soldiers is involved in the death of Joseph Samuels. In flashbacks, we see the night's events from different viewpoints as army Sgt. Keeley investigates on his own, trying to clear Mitchell, to whom circumstantial evidence points. Then the real, ugly motive for the killing begins to dawn on both Finlay and Keeley.