Nathan Juran directed this somewhat obscure gem starring Frank Lovejoy as a man who owns a drive-in food joint that is in love with one of the women who works there named Joanie Daniels (Mari Blanchard).
One day Joanie's brother, Frank (Richard Denning) shows up and he pitches an idea to Lovejoy's character of Stan into helping him obtain a huge Nazi treasure hidden in Germany.
Stan decides to go along with Joanie and Frank and before you know it, they are all headed to Germany.
There are a lot of suprise twists and turns during the first half of the movie including the one where we find out Frank and Joanie are really government agents and not brother and sister.
Frank makes up many excuses as to why they keep failing to get the treasure, and the plot thickens until the trick ending where Stan admits that he killed an MP in WW2 and has been hiding from authorities ever since.
Lovejoy comes across very well as a criminal hiding in the open and Denning is very cleaver as the agent who has been trying for 10 years to capture him, but has never had enough evidence.
The rest of the cast includes John Mylong, Harry Lauter, Steven Ritch, and John Albright.
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