Robert Mitchum takes a walk on the wild side in his TV acting debut, a suspenseful tale of blackmail and murder costarring Angie Dickinson and Mel Ferrer. Harold Schillman (Mitchum) used to be the best on the force. Now he's a washed up ex-cop, too down on his luck to care. So when he's hired to find the missing wife of a Tahoe casino owner (Ferrer), no one's more surprised than Schillman. Tracking her down to a San Francisco high-rise, he gets there in time to watch her fall to her death. Unsure whether she jumped or was pushed, Schillman hooks up with a woman from the victim's past (Dickinson) to help unravel a web of lies and expose the unsavory truth.

Atlanta, Georgia, 1913. After a man is found guilty and sentenced to death for the murder of a 13 year old girl during a highly publicized trial, the governor of the state risks his political career and his life by declaring that the trial was unfair. Based on actual events, which lead to the murder of the accused by a lynch mob.