Blackmail

John Ingram is a man living in Oklahoma. He puts out fires at oil wells. He is taken for a master of the work. He lives with his wife and his son. There is a secret in his past. Years ago he was in prison under another name. He had escaped from a chain gang. He had been sentenced although he was not guilty. One day a man from his past turns up. The man is called Ramey. He says he will get him cleared. In return he wants money. Ingram falls into the trap. Then matters get worse still. The film sets the reckoning beside a burning well. Edward G. Robinson and Ruth Hussey appear in the eighty one minute film, an American production H. C. Potter finished in 1939.