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
as George Stroud
Charles Laughton
as Earl Janoth
Maureen O'Sullivan
as Georgette Stroud
George Macready
as Steve Hagen
Rita Johnson
as Pauline York
Elsa Lanchester
as Louise Patterson
Harold Vermilyea
as Don Klausmeyer
Dan Tobin
as Roy Cordette
Harry Morgan
as Bill Womack
Richard Webb
as Nat Sperling
Elaine Riley
as Lily Gold
Luis van Rooten
as Edwin Orlin
