Anne Maitland, a female lawyer, receives an unexpected late-night visit from ex-boyfriend Guy Ransome. She agrees to let him sleep on the sofa but he must leave the next morning. When he returns home he finds that his girlfriend has been murdered. His former lover agrees to defend him without telling the court that he spent the night with her. Complications ensue.

• Hammer Film Productions
• Rosamund John
• Hugh Sinclair
• Guy Middleton
• Henry Edwards
• Terence Longdon
• John Warwick
• Brenda De Banzie
• Arthur Howard