End Run

Meet Drew Gavin, former college football star, now a wisecracking sportswriter who claims his drunken rut is a life. But that life changes at his class reunion when his old college sweetheart, Helen, lures Drew into trouble. Helen is married to a wheeler-dealer lawyer named Freddie, imminently in danger of having his kneecaps broken for gambling debts. Helen pleads for Drew's help. Playing the sucker, Drew goes to a bookie named Three Eyes to plead Freddie's case. Soon after, Freddie is found dead and Drew becomes the prime murder suspect.