In this legendary dark masterpiece, Orson Welles stars as Franz Kindler, a horrific Nazi war criminal who has painstakingly erased all evidence of his identity. Edward G. Robinson plays Wilson, a War Crimes Commission detective who is determined to track Kindler down. Only one man, Kindler's former ally Meinike, knows the true identity of the monster, so Wilson allows Meinike to leave in order to track him to Kindler. The trail leads to a small Connecticut town but Meinike is killed before Wilson can trace him to Kindler. The suspense builds relentlessly as the chase reaches its nerve-wracking conclusion.