Romantic, obsessive Steve Thompson is drawn back to L.A. to make another try for Anna, his former wife. However, Anna belongs now to the L.A. underworld. Steve believes he can rescue her, ignoring the advice and warnings of people who would try to save him. He commits himself to a dangerous course of action that quickly takes everyone somewhere unintended.
Written by
{cantor@creative.net}
More than a year after their divorce, Steve Thompson can't get fickle ex-wife Anna out of his mind. And Anna appears to want to get back together with Steve, who finds she's still nothing but trouble for him. Soon, despite herself (or is it?) she has him in an unstable triangle with gangster Slim Dundee, and up to his ears in crime...
Written by
Rod Crawford {puffinus@u.washington.edu}
While driving an armored car in a lonely road, Steve Thompson recalls his life, after divorcing his beloved wife Anna and working in many places in the United States of America, from the moment he returned home in Los Angeles a few days ago. Although traveling for almost two years trying to forget Anna, he is still obsessed with her. However, when he arrives in town, the sentimentally inconstant Anna gets married with the gangster Slim Dundee. Steve plans a heist of the armored car with Slim, expecting to double-cross the criminal and escaping with Anna to another city to begin a new life, but things do not happen as he intended it was.
Written by
Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Synopsis:
Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) comes back to his Los Angeles home to see his Mother, Father and brother after a few years of drifting around the country following his divorce from Anna (Yvonne De Carlo)...
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