Crime Against Joe

Down-and-out artist Joe Manning wakes up from a night of drunken revelry in a jail cell, where he's being held on suspicion for the murder of a nightclub singer.

Cast

John Bromfield

as Joe Manning

Julie London

as Frances 'Slacks' Bennett

Henry Calvin

as Red Waller

Patricia Blair

as Christine 'Christy' Rowen

Joel Ashley

as Philip Rowen

Robert Keys

as Detective Sgt. Hollander

Alika Louis

as Irene Crescent

John Pickard

as Harry Dorn, Bartender

Frances Morris

as Nora Manning

Rhodes Reason

as George Niles

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