After returning from a 30-day stint in jail down south Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum) returns home to find a group of thugs who claim he made a bet of 30 thousand and lost so they beat him up, whereupon he gets hired to go to Mexico for a year for a payout of 50-thousand dollars. Little does he know that he resembles the infamous gangster Nick Ferraro (Raymond Burr) and the sadistic crook, who has been deported to Italy, plans to use a plastic surgeon to change his face to look like Milner and use his identity to gain access back into the United States. Milner takes the deal without knowing all the details and on his way he bumps into the luminous Lenore Brent (Jane Russell) travelling to Mexico to meet up with the boisterous actor Mark Cardigan (Vincent Price) who believes his wife is divorcing him. Once they arrive south of the border Milner begins ferreting out the truth but gets stonewalled everywhere, while he and Lenore slowly develop a friendly bond. When he finally discovers the truth it's too late because Ferraro's thugs have taken him to an off-shore boat but Milner escapes and Cardigan helps him shoot it out with the bad guys but Milner needs to know more and goes back to the boat to confront Ferraro.
Who does Dan resemble ?
He resembles the infamous gangster Nick Ferraro