Blackout 1950

An engineer, Christopher Pelley, loses his sight in an accident and undergoes an operation to restore his vision, hoping to reclaim some normalcy in his life. One night he’s dropped at the wrong address by a driver, slips inside, and discovers a body on the floor along with a ring. The three killers — Otto Ford, Guy Sinclair, and Mickey Garston — realize that a blind man cannot identify them, so they decide to simply knock him out and leave him where they think he won’t be found.

When Pelley regains consciousness, the police struggle to verify his story; they can’t locate the house or the body, and his eventual return to health after the operation rekindles his curiosity. He decides to follow the clues himself and returns to the place, where he finds Pat Dale living there with her father, Mr. Dale. A photo on the piano reveals that the ring belonged to her brother Norman, who is presumed dead after a plane crash a year earlier. Patricia Dale agrees to help him probe deeper, and together they seek out Norman’s old friend Chalky, who provides a couple of leads that push the investigation forward.

A stop at a travel agency brings Pelley face-to-face with the man whose voice he recognizes from the night he was knocked out — Guy Sinclair — exposing the confession that this trio is tied to a larger criminal scheme. It becomes clear that the three men are tangled in a smuggling racket, and Pelley manages to seize a book that, though encoded, implicates all of them. With this new evidence, he tracks the criminals to an isolated house known as The Grange and is captured by Mickey Garston.

Pelley escapes with the unexpected aid of Lila Drew, a girlfriend of Norman’s, and he teams up with Chalky to press the case further. They head to see Lila, but tragedy strikes when she is killed by Mickey before they can obtain crucial information. Patricia disappears after receiving a midday message, and Pelley soon realizes that Chalky has been covertly working with the gang all along. Chalky is killed by the gang in a misdirected strike that pits him against Pelley.

Determined to rescue Patricia, Pelley confronts The Grange once more and finds her being held there. The shocking truth emerges: Norman is actually alive and revealed as the gang’s ringleader, having faked his death to dodge arrest. The body Pelley had stumbled upon was that of a customs investigator. In a tense confrontation, Pelley thwarts the gang, and Norman meets his demise while fleeing the law. With danger behind them, Pelley and Patricia leave the Grange hand in hand, stepping into a uncertain but hopeful future.