A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
Glenn Ford
as Joe Hufford
Broderick Crawford
as George Knowland
Millard Mitchell
as Malloby
Dorothy Malone
as Kay Knowland
Carl Benton Reid
as Captain Douglas
Frank Faylen
as Convict Ponti
Will Geer
as Convict Mapes
Martha Stewart
as Bertie Williams
Henry O'Neill
as Detective Dorn
Douglas Kennedy
as Det. Bailey
Roland Winters
as Vernon Bradley, Attorney
Ed Begley
as Mackay, Head of Parole Board