本片由威廉·迪亚特尔  执导,邀请演员查尔顿·赫斯顿  丽莎贝斯·斯科特  韦薇卡·琳德佛斯  迪恩·贾格尔  唐·德福  出演的恐怖片类型电影，讲述Danny Haley's bookie operation is shut down, so he and his pals need money; when Danny meets Arthur Winant, a sucker from out of town, he decoys him into a series of poker games where eventually Winant loses $5000 that isn't his...then hangs himself. But it seems Winant had a shadowy, protective elder brother who believes in personal revenge. And each of the card players in turn feels a faceless doom inexorably closing in. Dark streets and sexy torch-singer Fran lend ambience.