Wanted : Baby Sitter

Résumé

The taxi carrying Michelle Janson, a French student studying sculpture in Rome, knocks down a girl running blindly across the street. The victim is Ann Carson, an aspiring but unknown actress. Her wealthy lover, American businessman Cyrus Franklin, has just brutally thrown her out. Learning she has nowhere to go, kindly Michelle befriends her. Later, when Anne tells Michelle of a babysitting job, she accepts..But it is a trap. Out of revenge, and helped by two penniless actor friends, Ann has arranged for Franklin’s young son Boots to be kidnapped. Michelle, babysitting Boots, is also taken hostage and they are both imprisoned in an empty house. Michelle manages to smuggle out a call for help to an old woman living next door, but before the neighbour can take action she is killed. At first the police are convinced that Michelle is the kidnapper, but later, after questioning Ann, they realize that Ann herself has been manipulated by Franklin’s trusted assistant, Mr. Henderson, who also had reason to hate Franklin. Distraught, Ann kills herself. Meanwhile, resourceful Michelle has managed to escape and returns Boots safely to his father.