The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordinary lengths some will go to to get it. The loan sharking business has that want for money on both sides. He tells the story of one such loan shark, Stephen Hanley, who tried to pass his company off as a legitimate loan business, but who charged exorbitant rates, and used extortion and fraud to get out of his customers even more than what they may have owed on paper.

Alan Dinehart
as Stephen Hanley

Paul Guilfoyle
as Hanley's Assistant

John Butler
as Joe Mello

Addison Richards
as District Attorney Norman Kennedy

Tom Collins
as Reporter

Eddy Chandler
as Police Sergeant

John Dilson
as Clarence Z. Dodds, Hanley's Accountant

Lester Dorr
as Frank Sidley, Loan Victim

Jack Egan
as Saxophone Musician

Chuck Hamilton
as Policeman in District Attorney's Office