该电影由斯蒂夫·塞克利执导，琼·贝内特等主演，于1948年上映。在83分钟的叙事中，《心字已成灰》（又名：Hollow Triumph、伤疤）John Muller, medical school dropout and brilliant crook, plans a holdup which goes a little bit wrong, and finds vindictive gambler Rocky Stansyck after him. At the end of his tether, he stumbles onto a lucky chance to assume an impenetrable new identity as psychiatrist Victor Bartok. But irony piles on as Muller finds it’s out of the frying pan, into the fire.