Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
Richard Widmark
as Ray Biddle
Linda Darnell
as Edie Johnson - Mrs. John Biddle
Sidney Poitier
as Dr. Luther Brooks
Stephen McNally
as Dr. Dan Wharton
Mildred Joanne Smith
as Cora Brooks
Harry Bellaver
as George Biddle
Stanley Ridges
as Dr. Sam Moreland
Dots Johnson
as Lefty Jones - Orderly
Robert Adler
as Louie - Assistant Deputy in Hospital Prison Ward (uncredited)
Ernest Anderson
as School Teacher (uncredited)
Jessie Arnold
as Woman (uncredited)
Eleanor Audley
as Wife (uncredited)