在犯法生活生计中，魅力、伶俐和成功并不可阻拦小帕里斯·皮特曼在亚利桑那州的戈壁中服刑10年。然而，那些年应当很快就曩昔了，因为之前躲了50万美圆。新的抱负主义的牢狱长只会让Pitman想要更快地获取他的财富。他开端操作每小我以到达他的方针。

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies teller Leon Poole as inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. About three years later, Poole (until then a model prisoner) abruptly takes his cha…