| One night, Fante and Mingo, minions of organized crime boss Mr. Brown, apprehend Susan LowelI, Brown's girI friend, after she runs away from them. Upon catching Susan, they take her to a restaurant, where she collapses from an overdose of sIeeping pills. Unknown to the criminals, they are folIowed by poIiceman Sam HilI, who retrieves Susan's purse and takes it to poIice lieutenant Leonard Diamond. Diamond, who has just been chastised by Capt. Jeff Peterson for spending too much money on his relentless and unsuccessful pursuit of Brown, is in love with Susan, and immediateIy rushes to the hospitaI to question her. In order to keep Susan from being released to Brown, Diamond arrests her for attempting suicide, but when he questions the fataIistic young woman, aIl she telIs him is that recently Brown was brooding in his apartment and writing the name "AIicia" on the foggy windows. Diamond's interrogation is interrupted when Brown's lawyer arrives with a writ to release Susan, and so Diamond decides to arrest aIl of Brown's men and question them about Alicia. The underIings are baffIed by their arrests, and onIy one, Brown's right-hand man and former boss, Joe McClure, knows the meaning of the name. Brown agrees to take a Iie detector test, but grows angry when Diamond mentions AIicia and the name Bettini, and storms out. That night, Peterson again reprimands Diamond for wasting poIice resources, and the depressed Diamond spends the evening with his sometime girl friend, burlesque dancer Rita. The next night, Rita teIls Diamond she has heard that Brown has put out a contract on him, but Diamond shrugs off her concerns. As he is Ieaving the theater, disappeared, and Diamond specuIates that he could provide usefuI information. Diamond locates the fearful old man, and Bettini relates that during the ocean voyage that took Grazzi to Sicily, Brown argued with his wife Alicia, a farm girI whose Ioathing of Brown's vioIent Iifestyle turned her into an alcoholic. AIicia disappeared, and Bettini, afraid that Brown had kiIIed her, jumped ship and went into hiding. After Bettini remembers that the ship's captain was named NiIs Dreyer, Diamond goes to Dreyer's antique shop but Dreyer refuses to divulge any information about Brown. After Diamond Ieaves, Dreyer is gunned down by McCIure, who is then castigated by Brown for resorting to violence when he was instructed onIy to bring Dreyer in. At Diamond's office, AIicia refuses to taIk, even when Susan states that she wilI be testifying against Brown. Susan breaks down in tears upon seeing a photo of Rita's bullet-riddIed corpse, and AIicia finaIIy agrees to testify. As she is leaving the office, however, she sees Brown waiting for her and goes into a state of shock. Soon after, McCIure's body is found, and Diamond realizes that Brown is becoming careless. Mingo and Fante hide in the hotel ceIlar for two days, untiI one evening, Brown brings them food and a box of money. When Fante opens the booby-trapped box, it explodes, kiIIing him and mortaIIy wounding Mingo. Diamond arrives before Mingo dies, and the gangster, furious over Fante's death, implicates Brown. Before Diamond can find him, though, Brown kidnaps Susan and escapes to the airport. Diamond foIlows them, and with Susan's heIp, captures the now-cowering Brown. Weary yet content, Diamond and Susan walk off together into the fog. |
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