A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
Claude Rains
Gloria Dickson
Edward Norris
Otto Kruger
Allyn Joslyn
Lana Turner
Linda Perry
Elisha Cook Jr.
Cy Kendall
Clinton Rosemond
E. Alyn Warren
Elisabeth Risdon
Clifford Soubier
Granville Bates
Ann Shoemaker
Paul Everton
Donald Briggs
Sibyl Harris
Trevor Bardette
Elliott Sullivan
Wilmer Hines
Eddie Acuff
Frank Faylen
Leonard Mudie
Harry Davenport
Harry Beresford
Edward McWade
Al Bridge
Forbes Murray
Dick Rich