A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
Acting
Rogers's terrified stillness vs. Day's raw panic.
Production
Banned in Memphis; Klan literally protested theaters.
Director
Stuart Heisler
Ginger Rogers
Marsha Mitchell
Ronald Reagan
Burt Rainey
Doris Day
Lucy Rice
Steve Cochran
Hank Rice
Hugh Sanders
Charlie Barr
Lloyd Gough
Cliff Rummel
Raymond Greenleaf
Faulkner
Ned Glass
George Athens
Paul E. Burns
Frank Hauser
Walter Baldwin
Coroner Bledsoe
Stuart Randall
Walt Walters
Sean McClory
Shore
Lillian Albertson
Mrs. Rainey (uncredited)
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