The Ledge Summary

Stan Norris is a tennis pro who is having an affair with one of his clients. Norris is speaking with his lover's husband, hoping to convince him to let the two of them go away together. Cressner, however, is a mobster who does not like to lose. Cressner offers Norris a bag full of money and his wife and then informs Norris that he has had one of his men move Norris' car and plant drugs in it. Cressner intends to have his friend call the police to report the drugs. Norris has already been to prison once, and he will surely go again when the police find the drugs. Cressner then tells Norris he will call his man off and allow Norris to leave with his wife if he will agree to a bet. Norris feels he has no choice...