At the beginning of the film, the thief skip stole the wallet of the female protagonist candy's bag on a crowded tram. As a result, the wallet contained a state secret film, which was in the hands of the Communist Party organization, and the lady was only used to I don't know anything about film and my friend joe who is a communist party. Then candy told joe that he was stolen. Afraid of leaking secrets, joe, whose identity was exposed, asked Candy to find a way to find the thief and get the film back. On the other side, a plainclothes policeman who had been following Candy witnessed the theft, and his colleagues tried to find the thief to get the evidence back. All in one go. The police found moe, an old woman at the bottom of the society who sold cheap ties. Moe provided 8 thieves' information for a fee, and the police locked the thief skip. In this way, the thief skip became the target of everyone...candy found moe and asked about skip's whereabouts. After seeing skip, candy fell in love with skip, and skip only wanted to extort a large sum of money through film. money, and claiming that Candy is a communist, which makes Candy very angry without knowing it. In the face of a huge amount of blackmail, the anxious joe plans to find the skip himself, but candy, who fell in love with the skip, told joe the address of moe as the address of the skip, and told her of the danger of moe and advised her to leave, but moe did not escape, She reminded Skip not to have any connection with the Communist Party. In the face of joe who came to her door, Moe refused to reveal Skip's whereabouts. This was her bottom line. Facing the principles of the Communist Party, her lonely and hopeless expression before her death was very contagious. . In order to protect Skip, Candy knocked out Skip and took the film and handed it to the police. The police asked her to hand over the film to Joe, in order to lure Joe and her accomplices to act in order to catch them all. As a result, because one frame of film was missing, joe angrily shot and injured candy, and skip came to the hospital and learned that candy was shot to protect himself, he kissed affectionately, and then stole joe's pistol on the tram , and handed him and his accomplices to the police after being beaten, and then flew with candy... This is a typical noir film, an incident by accident that exposes and inspires the secrets and desires of each character. Then they intersect with their different starting points and gradually push the story to a climax. The political elements of the Communist Party and patriotism added to the film actually just played a role in promoting the plot and rationalizing the behavior of the characters. Samuel Fowler did not intend to make a political film, he simply wanted to tell a good story. Just a story.
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