In a distant jungle outstation in the Far Eastern theatre of universe War II, a choleric American soldier murder an allied British sergeant in cold blood. hardy American Lt. Colonel Barney Sam Adams (Robert Mitchum) is dispatch to support him in the result tribunal martial. But when Lt. Sam Adams get down meet barrier in his hunt for grounds, and his key witness get down disappear one after another, he shortly recognize he’s simply a pawn in a cryptic confederacy that could widen to the high degree of military powerfulness.