A wealthy, eccentric chemical company owner sends his woman to get an American writer to take a mind control drug, Kemek, to verify its potential. She accomplishes her mission, but falls totally in love with the writer. The chemical magnate, satisfied with the results of the test, rewards her with murder, just as she is about to flee to Naples with her new lover. Her ex-husband and a private detective track the killer behind it all to a remote hideaway to unravel the solution.
Mickey Arnold is a loving husband and a good friend to Ticker Welsh. However, when Mickey finds out that Ticker has seduced his wife, their friendship collapses. Now, the two are in a battle of wits, and Mickey can only win his wife back by getting first place in the annual Bible-Belt Race-a-Thon.
Ocho presos aguardan en el corredor de la muerte que les llegue el turno para ser ejecutados en la silla eléctrica. Sin nada que perder, uno de ellos lidera un motín, cuyo resultado es la muerte de uno de los guardias. Las tensiones sufridas durante las horas que dura el motín muestran una violenta y dura realidad. Remake de "The Last Mile" (1932), de Samuel Bischoff.
