A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she soon changes her mind, and with the help of the local police, tries to find the killer before he fulfills his part of the bargain.

• Quinn Martin Productions (QM)
• Ricardo Montalban
• Jack Warden
• Elizabeth Ashley
• Dane Clark
• Burr DeBenning
• Roy Poole
• Charles Dierkop
• Regis Cordic