George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.

Ray Milland
as George Stroud

Charles Laughton
as Earl Janoth

Maureen O'Sullivan
as Georgette Stroud

George Macready
as Steve Hagen

Rita Johnson
as Pauline York

Elsa Lanchester
as Louise Patterson

Harold Vermilyea
as Don Klausmeyer

Dan Tobin
as Roy Cordette

Harry Morgan
as Bill Womack

Richard Webb
as Nat Sperling
John Chard
How did I get into this rat race? Egomaniac publisher Earl Janoth (Charles Laughton) murders his mistress in a fit of temper. He then uses all his power and connections to pin the crime on another man seen close to the crime. George Stroud (Ray Milland), editor of Janoth's own Crimeways magazin...