When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
Cast
Faye Emerson
Gladys Wayne
Van Johnson
Bert Bell
George Meeker
'Scoop' Conner
Frank Wilcox
Randall
Tod Andrews
Dapper Dan Malloy (as Michael Ames)
Roland Drew
Mile-Away Gordon
Ruth Ford
Irene Gordon
Joseph Crehan
Ainslee
William Gould
Prison Warden
Joe Devlin
Motorcycle cop, Mulligan - Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
Douglas Wood
Burgen
John Maxwell
Prison Doctor
Patrick McVey
Chief Electrician (as Pat McVeigh)
Dick Rich
Death House Guard
Fred Kelsey
"Screw"
William Phillips
Mike - Henchman (as Bill Phillips)
Jack Mower
Ramstead - Captain of the Guards
Creighton Hale
Ritter - Warden's Secretary
Henry Hall
Chaplain
Walter Brooke
Reporter (uncredited)
Virgil Cain
Reporter (uncredited)
Dick Chandlee
Newsboy (uncredited)
Bill Chaney
Copyboy (uncredited)
Bill Edwards
Reporter (uncredited)
Sol Gorss
Guard with Visitor Records (uncredited)
Eddie Graham
Reporter (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
Reporter (uncredited)
William Hopper
Reporter (uncredited)
I. Stanford Jolley
Reporter (uncredited)
Hank Mann
Reporter (uncredited)
Frank Mayo
Reporter (uncredited)
Ray Montgomery
Young Reporter (uncredited)
Pat O'Malley
Guard (uncredited)
Paul Panzer
Reporter (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Executioner (uncredited)
Don Phillips
Reporter (uncredited)
Cliff Saum
Second Process Server (uncredited)
Wallace Scott
Slim (uncredited)
Don Turner
Reporter (uncredited)
Leo White
First Process Server (uncredited)
Jack Wise
Reporter (uncredited)
Crew
B. Reeves Eason
Director
Raymond L. Schrock
Screenplay
Terry O. Morse
Editor
Ted D. McCord
Director of Photography
Lester D. Guthrie
Assistant Director
Jack L. Warner
Executive Producer
William Jacobs
Producer
Milo Anderson
Costume Design
Orry-Kelly
Costume Design
Eugene Joseff
Costume Design
Perc Westmore
Makeup Artist
Oliver S. Garretson
Sound
Howard Jackson
Original Music Composer
Friedrich Hollaender
Original Music Composer
Max Steiner
Original Music Composer
Leo Erdody
Original Music Composer
William Lava
Original Music Composer
Sol Gorss
Stunts
Harvey Parry
Stunts
Jerome Chodorov
Idea
Hugh Reticker
Art Direction
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