Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw (Farley Granger). She marries Thaw, but White's continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw's volatile temper. Inspired by true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century, director Richard Fleischer's crime drama co-stars Luther Adler and Frances Fuller.