It's not often you see Virginia Mayo play an unsavoury character but she does it quite well here as the eponymous and rather duplicitous character. She's the girlfriend of "Colby" (Zachary Scott). He is a lawyer. Deep down a decent one, but for most of the time he's in the pocket of the crooked "Hap" (Douglas Kennedy). When one of his gang is killed, "Flaky" looks like she's going to have to take the rap - but her paramour thinks he has the legal wits to argue himself out of the chair, so takes the blame himself. It's only when he is being tried that his erstwhile "friends" move the goalposts a...