This account of a violent prison break is a semi-documentary opens with a newsreel type tour of the prison. Led by Carl Schwartzmiller (Jeff Corey), 12 convicts plan their escape but prisoner Jim Sherbondy (Scott Brady) is reluctant to go along with the group.
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?
Issız black rock kasabasından geçen buharlı tren uzun yıllardır hiç duraksamamıştır bu kasabada, yıllar sonra trenin durup bir yabancıyı bırakması yerel halkta huzursuzluğa ve paranoyaya sebep olur, zira bu ıssız kasaba yıllar geçtikçe kendi adalaetini kendi sağlar hale gelmiştir, eski sırların perdesi aralanacaktır oysa... Özellikle “The Great Escape” ile birçok sinemaseverin gönlünde taht kuran John Sturges’in Oscar adaylığı aldığı tek filmdir “Bad Day At Black Rock”.