When college student Bill Perry grows inappropriately fond of psychology professor Wilma Tuttle and tries to rape her, her self-defense inadvertently kills him. Wilma then moves Bill's corpse to a nearby beach and makes his death look like the result of a cliff diving accident. But her guilt over the incident builds, and Lt. Ted Dorgan begins to suspect that Wilma knows more than she's letting on.

• Paramount Pictures
• Hal Wallis Productions
• Loretta Young
• Robert Cummings
• Wendell Corey
• Sam Jaffe
• Douglas Dick
• Suzanne Dalbert
• Sara Allgood
• Mickey Knox