Chester Morris as John Morgan

Wallace Beery as Machine Gun 'Butch' Schmidt

Lewis Stone as Warden James Adams

Robert Montgomery as Kent Marlowe

Leila Hyams as Anne Marlowe

George F. Marion as Pop

J. C. Nugent as Mr. Marlowe

Karl Dane as Olsen

DeWitt Jennings as Wallace

Matthew Betz as Gopher

Claire McDowell as Mrs. Marlowe

Robert Emmett O'Connor as Donlin

Tom Wilson as Sandy

Eddie Foyer as Dopey

Roscoe Ates as Putnam

Fletcher Norton as Oliver

Noah Beery Jr. as Convict in Yard (uncredited)

Chris-Pin Martin as Inmate (uncredited)

Louis Natheaux as Morgan's Lawyer (uncredited)

Herbert Prior as Prison Doctor (uncredited)

Harry Wilson as Inmate #46375 (uncredited)

Angelo Rossitto as Inmate (uncredited)