Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.

Donald Cook
as Jim Daley

Genevieve Tobin
as Jean Trent

Hardie Albright
as Henry Abbott

Edward Ellis
as Tim Cronin

Edwin Maxwell
as Jason Osgood

Vince Barnett
as William Jones

Helen Flint
as Sylvia Inglesby

Samuel S. Hinds
as Dr. Murray Reid

Nella Walker
as Margaret Chisholm

Sidney Bracey
as Hawkins
CinemaSerf
I wonder how many of us would turn up at a dinner nowadays where we didn't know anyone and expect to escape alive? These eight did - and after a good dinner and some fine wine are informed by a radio that resembles a face on the wall, that they are all going to be killed unless they manage to outwit...