Katie Connors (Jane Greer), a writer for a tabloid magazine, travels to Mexico to find reclusive novelist Mike Latimer (Richard Widmark). When she uncovers him, the two develop feelings for each other, and Mike offers to fly her back to Mexico City. After their plane crashes in the jungle they are rescued by an Englishman named Browne (Trevor Howard), who seems very hospitable at first but soon reveals a sinister hobby. He is a hunter who preys on "the most dangerous game": man.