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