Dick Powell as John Kennedy

Paula Raymond as Ginny Beaufort

Adolphe Menjou as Caleb Jeffers

Marshall Thompson as Lance Beaufort

Ruby Dee as Rachel

Richard Rober as Lt. Coulter

Leif Erickson as Stranger

Will Geer as Homer Crowley

Florence Bates as Mrs. Charlotte Alsop

Erville Alderson as Minister (uncredited)

Olive Ball as Hawker (uncredited)

Barbara Billingsley as Young Mother (uncredited)

Peter Brocco as Fernandina (uncredited)

George Bunny as Hawker (uncredited)

John Butler as Miller (uncredited)

John Call as Clerk (uncredited)

Ken Christy as Detective (uncredited)

Harry Cody as Minor Role (uncredited)

Frank Conlan as Clerk (uncredited)

Clancy Cooper as Brakeman (uncredited)

Lucille Curtis as Minor Role (uncredited)

John Damler as Division Manager (uncredited)

Robert Easton as Young Southerner (uncredited)

Estelle Etterre as Little Old Lady (uncredited)

Budd Fine as Pinkerton Man (uncredited)

Dan Foster as Dapper Man (uncredited)

A. Cameron Grant as Train Passenger (uncredited)

Robert Haines as Train Passenger (uncredited)

Jonathan Hale as Passenger from Carolina (uncredited)

Sherry Hall as Man in Boarding Line (uncredited)

Alvin Hammer as Telegraph Operator (uncredited)

James Harrison as Allan Pinkerton (uncredited)

Paul Harvey as Minor Role (uncredited)

Percy Helton as Beamish (uncredited)

Clarence Hennecke as Hawker (uncredited)

Marjorie Jackson as Minor Role (uncredited)

Wilfred Jackson as Newsboy (uncredited)

Chester Jones as Pedestrian (uncredited)

Nikki Juston as Minor Role (uncredited)

Stapleton Kent as New Brunswick Stationmaster (uncredited)

Victor Kilian as John K. Gannon (uncredited)

Leslie Kimmell as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)

Mitchell Lewis as Sleeping Train Passenger (uncredited)

Emmett Lynn as News Vendor (uncredited)

Robert Malcolm as Patrolman (uncredited)

Mickey Martin as Daniel - Messenger (uncredited)

Billy Mitchell as Hawker (uncredited)

Tom Monroe as Zoaves (uncredited)

Roger Moore as Minor Role (uncredited)

Brad Morrow as Winfield (uncredited)

Thomas Murray as Zoaves (uncredited)

Lou Nova as Zouave Sergeant (uncredited)

Tom Powers as Simon G. Stroud (uncredited)

Bob Rich as Zoaves (uncredited)

Jeff Richards as Philadelphia Police Officer (uncredited)

Bert Roach as Politician (uncredited)

Phil Schumacher as Zoaves (uncredited)

Irving Smith as Hawker (uncredited)

Robert Spencer as Zoaves (uncredited)

Robert R. Stephenson as Hawker (uncredited)

Jack Sterling as Zoaves (uncredited)

Robert Strong as Minor Role (uncredited)

Frank Sully as Telegram Messenger (uncredited)

William Sundholm as Hawker (uncredited)

Regis Toomey as Insp. Tim Reilly (uncredited)

Charles Wagenheim as Telegraph Clerk (uncredited)

Katherine Warren as Mrs. Gibbons (uncredited)

Dan White as Passenger in Club Car (uncredited)

Napoleon Whiting as Hawker (uncredited)

Wilson Wood as Dispatcher (uncredited)

Rodney Wooton as Newsboy (uncredited)

Will Wright as Thomas Ogden (uncredited)