The Chase 1946 Returning a lost wallet gains unemployed veteran Chuck Scott a job as chauffeur to Eddie Roman, a seeming gangster whose enemies have a way of meeting violent ends The job proves nerve wracking, and soon Chuck finds himself pledged to help Eddies lovely, fearful, prisoner wife Lorna to escape The result leaves Chuck caught like a rat in a trap, vainly seeking a way out through dark streets But the real chase begins when the strange plot virtually starts all over again