After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
Acting
Greenstreet's crumbling authority vs. Lorre's slippery menace.
Direction
Siegel's first feature—already tightening screws like a master.
Director
Don Siegel
Sydney Greenstreet
Supt. George Edward Grodman
Peter Lorre
Victor Emmric
Joan Lorring
Lottie Rawson
George Coulouris
Supt. John R. Buckley
Rosalind Ivan
Mrs. Vicky Benson
Paul Cavanagh
Clive Russell
Arthur Shields
Rev. Holbrook
Morton Lowry
Arthur Kendall
Holmes Herbert
Sir William Dawson
Clyde Cook
Barney Cole
Jimmy Aubrey
Newsboy
Billy Bletcher
Gravedigger
Creighton Hale
Reporter
Colin Kenny
Sergeant
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