Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer. In the book it is based on George Stroud is clearly having an affair with Pauline. Even more shocking, Janoth kills Pauline when she accuses him, with some justification, not of having a series of affairs with his secretaries but of being his associate Hagen’s homosexual lover. Pauline, in turn, is described as bisexual. Remade years later as "No Way Out" starring Kevin Costner.
Ray Milland
Charles Laughton
Maureen O'Sullivan
George Macready
Rita Johnson
Elsa Lanchester
Harold Vermilyea
Dan Tobin
Harry Morgan
Richard Webb
Elaine Riley
Luis van Rooten
Lloyd Corrigan
Frank Orth
Margaret Field
Philip Van Zandt
Henri Letondal
Douglas Spencer
Bobby Watson
B.G. Norman
Joey Ray
Frances Morris
Harry Rosenthal
Ernö Verebes
James Burke
Lucille Barkley
Bess Flowers
Noel Neill
Julia Faye
Theresa Harris
Lucy Knoch
Judy Nugent
Ruth Roman
Bea Allen
Franklyn Farnum
Chuck Hamilton
Bert Moorhouse
Harry Anderson
James Carlisle
Al Ferguson
Frank Hagney
Norman Leavitt
Lee Miller
Dick Gordon
Barry Norton
Lester Dorr