Fact1: Vince Walters with race results in advance gangster, Fact2: Granger takes interest in Walters attractive assistant, Fact3: East Coast mobster Larry Mason is sent by boss Carl Stephans to persuade Granger to join Syndicate, Fact4: Trudy returns to work for Granger, Fact5: police match paint from Granger 's damaged car to Gizzi 's murder
Output: Knowing how much telephone repairman Mal Granger Edmond OBrien likes to bet on the horses, smalltime bookmaker Chippie Evans Sammy White proposes a scheme in which Grangers technical expertise would provide gangster Vince Walters Barry Kelley with race results in advance. Granger accepts and also takes an interest in Walters attractive assistant, Trudy Dorothy Patrick, but she is arrested. Grangers new method of getting track information to the bookies makes him invaluable. He threatens to cut Walters off unless he is made a 20 partner. Walters gives in. When Walters tries to collect from a bookie who owes him, the bookie kills first Walters, then himself. Granger takes control of the wire service, making him a target for Lieutenant Wright Howard St. John of the Los Angeles Police. East Coast mobster Larry Mason Don Porter is sent by boss Carl Stephans Otto Kruger to persuade Granger to join the Syndicate. He travels west with his wife Gail Joanne Dru. Granger decides to accept a 5050 split with his new partners. Some of the independent bookies dont like the new arrangement and the extra 20 protection fee and refuse to go along. They are roughed up by Syndicate goons. Trudy returns to work for Granger; she finds out he is being shortchanged. When he complains, Granger is told that the shortfall is due to necessary expenses. He vows to get his money. Granger and Gail are strongly attracted to each other. Mason beats Gail, after which Granger hires a hitman named Gizzi Robert Osterloh to kill Mason with a rifle. Gizzi decides to blackmail Granger, who agrees to pay 25,000 at a rendezvous at the Malibu Pier, but there Gizzi announces he intends to become Grangers silent partner. Granger crushes him to death against the piers railing with his car. Using his telephone knowhow, Granger places a call to Wright that makes it appear he is in Palm Springs and has an alibi. Wright tapes the call and hears a streetcar whistle; there are no streetcars in Palm Springs. The police eventually match the paint from Grangers damaged car to Gizzis murder. Granger decides to retire and escape to Guatemala, but first, he sets out to collect what is owed to him. With the help of Gail and Chippie, he taps into a phone line to a mob betting parlor in Las Vegas and pulls off a passpost swindle. Intercepting and taping race results to be replayed after a twominute delay, he gives Gail and Chippie time to place substantial bets. Chippie, however, is recognized by a man who bears a grudge against Granger. He tells Stevens, who has Chippie brought to him and learns where Granger can be found. Stevens passes the information along to Wright, content to let the police rid him of a troublesome colleague. With the police closing in, Granger and Gail flee to Boulder Dam, trying to cross state lines to get out of Wrights jurisdiction, but encounter a roadblock there. They join a tour group and descend into the dam. Gail collapses from fatigue while running, then Granger is killed before he can find his way to the Arizona side.