Vicki Lynn (Jean Peters) is a waitress who is transformed into a fashion model by press agent Steve Christopher (Elliott Reid). When Vicki is murdered, detective Ed Cornell (Richard Boone) tries to blame the crime on Christopher.
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's estate, and killing everyone in her way.
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
Dünya Savaşı sırasında hüküm giymiş bir Nazi savaş suçlusunun kızı olan Alicia'yla Amerikan Hükümeti adına casusluk yapması için temasa geçilir. Aşk, gerilim ve tutku gibi Hitchcock temaları etrafında dönen film, ustanın en iyi filmlerinden birisi olarak kabul ediliyor. Film diğer Hitchcock filmleri gibi gerilim türünde olsa da; alt metin olarak asıl aşkı ele alıyor. Filmde Grant, ajan rolünde; Bergman da Almanya vatandaşı olan, babası kirli işlere karışmış, babasının yaptığı pis işleri öğrendiğinde Amerika hükümetine çeteye sızan birini canlandırıyor.