Paul Kelly as Douglas Goodwin

Marsha Hunt as Claire Patterson

Kent Taylor as Jerry Welch

Robert Cummings as Jimmy Ellis

Harry Carey as Sen. Nash

Bernadene Hayes as Muriel Goodwin

Hilda Vaughn as Muriel's Maid

Thomas E. Jackson as Lead Investigator Logan

DeWitt Jennings as Prison Warden

Fred Kohler as Curly-haired Convict

Ralf Harolde as Lean, Angry Convict

Joe Sawyer as Father Reed, chaplain

Paul Fix as "Twitchy" Burke, the killer thief

Jonathan Hale as Special Prosecutor

Sam Flint as District Attorney Benton

John Carroll as Dominic Petrelli, convict

Sammee Tong as Chinese-American Convict

Russell Hicks as Vociferous Pro-Capital Punishment Senator

Frederick Burton as The Governor

Rollo Lloyd as Dr. Simms

Glenn Belt as Detective Billings

Hooper Atchley as Senator

Harry A. Bailey as Senator

William Bailey as Reporter in Senate Chamber

William Hopper as Reporter

Irene Bennett as

Ellen Drew as Wife

Ward Bond as Recreation Room Guard

Harry C. Bradley as Senator

James P. Burtis as Waiter

Mae Busch as Younger Woman on Bus

George Chandler as Reporter

Ethel Clayton as

Jimmy Conlin as (scene deleted)

Eddie Dunn as Sergeant at Arms

Matty Fain as Condemned Man

Kenneth Harlan as Police Surgeon

Harry Hayden as Clerical Employee

Edward Hearn as Bailiff

Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian as Convict

Ben Hendricks Jr. as Convict

Al Hill as Reporter

Fay Holden as Twitchy's Landlady

Arthur Stuart Hull as Senator

George Irving as Judge's Voice

Selmer Jackson as Medical Examiner

Marten Lamont as Convict

Priscilla Lawson as Hat Check Girl

Ralph Lewis as Senator

Arthur Loft as Convict

Walter Long as Convict

Frank Losee Jr. as Reporter

Nick Lukats as Reporter

Frank Marlowe as Convict

Louis Mason as Higgins

Frank Mayo as Copy Desk Editor

Philo McCullough as Reporter in Senate Chamber

J.P. McGowan as Inner Guard

Walter McGrail as Guard

Kitty McHugh as (scene deleted)

Robert McKenzie as Dialogue Restaurant Patron

Frank McLure as Restaurant Patron

Charles McMurphy as Guard

Torben Meyer as Proprietor

Ivan Miller as Chairman of the Senate

Bruce Mitchell as Guard in Police Shower

Charles R. Moore as Black Prisoner

James C. Morton as (scene deleted)

Paul Newlan as Prisoner

Frank O'Connor as Deputy

Dennis O'Keefe as Reporter

Jack Perrin as Guard

Bob Perry as Escort Guard

Lee Phelps as Riley

Alexander Pollard as Headwaiter (extra)

Jack Raymond as Prisoner

Ronald R. Rondell as Restaurant Patron

Churchill Ross as Ballistic Expert

Frank Rowan as Reporter

Rolfe Sedan as First Waiter

Phillips Smalley as Senator

Edwin Stanley as Fingerprint Expert

Larry Steers as Senator

Milburn Stone as Convict

Harry Tyler as Man on Bus

Arthur Van Slyke as Senator

Suzanne Willa as Older Woman on Bus

Gloria Williams as Passenger

William Worthington as Senator