A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing room with its door and window locked from the inside.

John Holland
as Jim Ryan

Barbara Kent
as Jean Royce

Raymond Largay
as Police Capt. Blake

James P. Burtis
as Police Sgt. Jardine

Lillian Rich
as Pamela Gregory

Lafe McKee
as Michael, theater watchman

Lloyd Whitlock
as Frank Murray

Larry Steers
as Ralph Burns

Dorothy Christy
as Ethel Wynn Merle

Crauford Kent
as Alvin Merle