When career criminal Preston Clearwater picks up hitchhiking Henry Dampier, an innocent 20-year-old Bible salesman, he immediately recognises him as just the associate he needs - one who will believe Clearwater is an FBI spy, one who will drive the cars Clearwater steals as he...
Preston Clearwater has been a criminal since stealing two chain saws and 1600 pairs of aviator sunglasses from the Army during the Second World War. Back on the road in post-war North Carolina, a member of a car-theft ring, he picks up hitch-hiking Henry Dampier, an innocent...