tire out and the car crashes. Later that day, at another robbery, Laurie intends to shoot and kill a grocer, but Bart stops her in time. The couple have now been identified in national newspapers as notorious robbers. Bart says he is done with a life of crime. Laurie persuades him to take on one last big robbery so they can flee the country and live in peace and comfort. They get jobs at a meat processing plant and make detailed plans. When they hold up the payroll department, the office manager pulls the burglar alarm and Laurie shoots her dead. While fleeing the plant, Laurie also kills a security guard. Bart does not realize at the time that both victims are dead, but learns about it later from a newspaper. Laurie then discloses she shot a man dead in St. Louis while she and Packett were attempting a hold-up. She claims that those murders happen because the fear makes her unable to think straight in the moment. To minimize the chances of being caught, the two decide to split up for a couple of months, but neither can bear to be away from the other. The FBI is brought in, and the fugitives become the targets of an intense manhunt. In California, Bart arranges for passage to Mexico, when the FBI finds them in a dance hall. Forced to flee, they leave all their loot behind. With roadblocks everywhere, they jump on a train and get off near Ruby's house. Clyde, then the local sheriff, notices that the house has the curtains drawn and the children are not in school. He informs Dave, and the two plead with Bart to give himself and Laurie up. Instead, the couple flee into the mountains. Pursued by police dogs, they are surrounded in reed grass the next morning. In dense fog, Dave and Clyde approach to try to reason with them. As soon as Bart sees Laurie preparing to gun them down, he shoots her and is, in turn, killed by the police. Cast Peggy Cummins as Annie Laurie Starr John Dall as Barton "Bart" Tare Berry Kroeger as Packett Morris Carnovsky as Judge Willoughby Anabel Shaw as Ruby Tare Flagler Harry Lewis as Deputy Clyde Boston Nedrick Young as Dave Allister Trevor Bardette as Sheriff Boston, who apprehends the teenage Bart Mickey Little as Bart Tare at age 7 Rusty Tamblyn