When gun-obsessed pacifist Bart Tare (John Dall) witnesses expert shooter Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins) demonstrate her firearm prowess at a carnival one night, it's love at first sight. Aimless Bart joins the traveling show and begins a romance with Annie, but her dangerously rebellious spirit soon gets them both fired. After eloping, the young lovers embark on an armed robbery spree, managing to elude the authorities until Annie insists on pulling one last job.

Besides the extraordinary performance of [Peggy Cummins], the film serves up... some of the most sustained photographic suspense and the tightest cutting I have been privileged to encounter in an awful lot of picture-going.
Philip K. Scheuer
Los Angeles Times