***SPOILERS*** Trying to track down famous American novelist Mike Latimer,Richard Widmark, who dropped out of sight fives years ago Sight Magazine investigative reporter Katie Connors, Jane Greer, finds Latimer at this Mexican fishing village San Marcos out, what else, fishing. It doesn't take long for Latimer to figure out that Katie isn't just there for the scenery or fish since she tells him she doesn't know squat about fishing and is not at all interested in the sport! Agreeing to fly Katie back to Mexico City, when her fishing party failed to arrive in town, where she can catch a plane back to the states Latimer's plane crash lands in the Mexican jungle where he and Katie are rescued by British explorer Browne, Trevor Howard, and his friend Dutch archaeologist Dr. Van Anders, Peter Van Eyck.
It's not that long that we find out that both Browne & Van Anders are fugitive Nazi war criminals, Browne being a traitor to his country as well, on the run from justice. The film really takes off together with Latimer and Katie when the two find out who Bowne & Van Anders really are and try to flee on foot through the swamps and woods to get to Latimer's plane that the two Nazis had hidden deep in the Mexican jungle! Exciting man and woman on the run film with a really well though out ending in Latimer finishing off Browne, without the use of a rifle, with the very bullet that was meant for him when he was a war corespondent with the US paratroopers on D-Day! As for Nazi fugitive Van Anders he got his the hard way by being chopped up by Latimer's plane's motor blades when he, in typical Nazi superman macho fashion, single handedly tried to prevent Latier and Katie from escaping.
P.S Actress Jane Green didn't know it at the time but she contracted a rare and near fatal tropical disease when she was filmed together with co-star Richard Widmark wading through the dirty and incest infected swamp water in the movie. It was years later after she discovered that she had it that Greer was treated for her illness which ended up saving her life.
It's not that long that we find out that both Browne & Van Anders are fugitive Nazi war criminals, Browne being a traitor to his country as well, on the run from justice. The film really takes off together with Latimer and Katie when the two find out who Bowne & Van Anders really are and try to flee on foot through the swamps and woods to get to Latimer's plane that the two Nazis had hidden deep in the Mexican jungle! Exciting man and woman on the run film with a really well though out ending in Latimer finishing off Browne, without the use of a rifle, with the very bullet that was meant for him when he was a war corespondent with the US paratroopers on D-Day! As for Nazi fugitive Van Anders he got his the hard way by being chopped up by Latimer's plane's motor blades when he, in typical Nazi superman macho fashion, single handedly tried to prevent Latier and Katie from escaping.
P.S Actress Jane Green didn't know it at the time but she contracted a rare and near fatal tropical disease when she was filmed together with co-star Richard Widmark wading through the dirty and incest infected swamp water in the movie. It was years later after she discovered that she had it that Greer was treated for her illness which ended up saving her life.