Joe Norson (Farley Granger) and his wife Ellen (Cathy ODonnell are a young married couple with a child on the way and living with their parents. Joe delivers mail for the Post Office and dreams of what hell do if he gets a little money saved up. When he discovers an envelop filled with cash in the file cabinet of one of his delivery addresses he takes it finding it filled with $30, 000 dollars in bank notes and documents about a criminal from an attorney. The cash is from a blackmail scheme that the attorney has fronted using the muscle of one of his clients Georgie Garsell (James Craig) who murders several people involved. Joe reconsidering his actions tells his wife he has gotten a job upstate, leaves the money with a local bar owner, and holes up in a cheap hotel. When he tries to own up to the crime and return the money the attorney denies any such money existed, but worse when he returns to the bar when he left the cash, he finds that the bar owner has disappeared. By the time he is able to see his new son and tell wife the truth, the police are tracking down the crooks who are stalking Joe, and the web of murder and deception grows tighter.
Question: Who is Joe Norson's wiffe ?, Answer: Ellen. Question: Who plays Joe Norson ?, Answer: Farley Granger. Question: Who plays Ellen ?, Answer: Cathy ODonnell.