A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses.
Richard Egan
as William Keating
Jan Sterling
as Madge Pitts
Dan Duryea
as John Jacob Masters
Julie Adams
as Dee
Walter Matthau
as Al Dahlke
Charles McGraw
as Lt. Anthony Vosnick
Sam Levene
as Howard Rysdale
Mickey Shaughnessy
as Solly Pitts
Harry Bellaver
as Benjy Karp
Nick Dennis
as Midget
Joe Downing
as Eddie 'Cockeye' Cook
Ned Wever
as Captain Sid Wallace
