Crime pays—until dashing investigator Bates comes looking for “dead man” Laurence Harvey, who has righteously fleeced an insurance company to ensure financial security with/for wife Lee Remick. Reed’s final film shot by Robert Krasker, and his only film scripted by John Mortimer (adapting Shelley Smith’s novel), features Fortunio Bonanova, Colin Gordon, Fernando Rey, and a credits sequence from 007 titles designer Maurice Binder.