Norman Rodway comes in to see his old friend and employer Peter Reynolds. He knows that Reynolds has been backing his operations with forged bonds, and threatens him with exposure and jail unless they go into partnership. Reynolds agrees, and when Rodway tells him they must destroy the forged bonds, agrees again. They go to Reynolds' beach house, talking of their adolescent love, Noelle Middleton. There, Reynolds kills Rodway and buries him in the sand. Now, with Rodway gone, when the police discover the forgery, it looks like Rodway did the forgeries and a bunk. Things are looking well for Reynolds, when Miss Middleton turns up; she had been living with Rodway for seven years after the disappearance of her husband, and doesn't think he did the things he is accused of. All Reynolds can think of is a chance to have his teen-age fantasies come true.
There's little suspense in how the story goes, but there is a good deal in if and when Miss Middleton figures things out and whether she can convince the police. For such an inherently slight -- albeit bloody -- story, it's well acted and shot under the direction of Max Varnel.
