Storyline

Sheila Bennet returns to New York from Cuba carrying $40,000 worth of smuggled diamonds - and smallpox, which could start a devastating epidemic in the unprotected city. Treasury agent Johnson loses her but keeps doggedly on the trail, while Public Health Doctor Wood searches in vain for the unknown person spreading the deadly disease far and wide. Meanwhile, the increasingly ill Sheila is concerned only with her faithless husband Matt, who plans to abscond with the diamonds.—Rod Crawford

Plot Keywords

epidemic, suicide, smuggling, sickness, rooftop, police officer, photographer, nurse, nun, teacher, tenement, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, bronx new york city, husband wife relationship, usa, new york city, mother superior, drunkenness

Short Review

Unfortunately, the script of Harry Essex, based on a factual magazine piece, has a bad tendency to ramble and to confuse two separate hunts. And the performances of the principal characters, while adequate, have little punch.

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