The.Price.of.Fear. 1956 FHD (ENG.SUB) Lex Barker, Merle Oberon

David Barrett, the co-owner of a dog-track, discovers that his partner, Lou Belden, has sold out to gangster Frankie Edare, who plans to get rid of Barrett and take sole control of the enterprise. Barrett goes to the Intermezzo Club to confront him; while there Barrett spots Lou and loudly threatens him. Around the same time, a respected businesswoman, Jessica Warren, leaves a nightclub after celebrating a work-related success. She begins driving herself home, although she is "a bit too happy", and accidentally runs down an elderly man, Ferranti, who, while following his dog, has stepped in front of her on the road. Extremely upset, Jessica drives away from the scene; eventually steeling herself, she stops at a service station and places a call to the police. Meanwhile, Barrett has left in a taxi from his contentious meeting with Edare. He notices that a car has been following, so he gives the cabbie, McNab, twenty dollars to pull over. With Edare's henchmen in pursuit, Barrett runs off until he comes across Jessica's car at the service station. He jumps in it and drives away. Jessica sees this and immediately decides to not report the hit and run, but simply tell police her car has been stolen..... Directed by Abner Biberman Produced by Howard Christie Screenplay by Dick Irving Hyland Story by Robert Tallman Starring Merle Oberon Lex Barker Cinematography Irving Glassberg Edited by Ray Snyder