A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses.
Cast
Richard Egan
William Keating
Jan Sterling
Madge Pitts
Dan Duryea
John Jacob Masters
Julie Adams
Dee
Walter Matthau
Al Dahlke
Charles McGraw
Lt. Anthony Vosnick
Sam Levene
Howard Rysdale
Mickey Shaughnessy
Solly Pitts
Harry Bellaver
Benjy Karp
Nick Dennis
Midget
Joe Downing
Eddie 'Cockeye' Cook
Ned Wever
Captain Sid Wallace
Billy M. Greene
"Monk" Mohler
John McNamara
Judge
Amzie Strickland
Mrs. Cavanagh
Mickey Hargitay
Big John
Len Lesser
Sam (Uncredited)
Crew
Arnold Laven
Director
Lawrence Roman
Screenplay
William J. Keating
Book
Richard Carter
Book
Russell F. Schoengarth
Editor
Fred Jackman Jr.
Director of Photography
Phil Bowles
Assistant Director
Albert Zugsmith
Producer
Bill Thomas
Costume Design
Bud Westmore
Makeup Artist
Leslie I. Carey
Sound
Frank H. Wilkinson
Sound
Clifford Stine
Visual Effects
Joseph Gershenson
Music Supervisor
Herschel Burke Gilbert
Music Arranger
Julia Heron
Set Decoration
Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration
Alexander Golitzen
Art Direction
Robert Emmet Smith
Art Direction
