A man steps off the train with his ten-year-old daughter, expecting to find the wife he hasn't seen since the girl was born. Instead, he meets the chief of police, who recognizes his face from a wanted poster. The man is shocked. Supposedly he is wanted in Philadelphia for the murder of a man he's never heard of. But the small-town chief is no fool. Something stinks about the wanted poster, the murder rap and everything else. He'll endure the dirty politics of a dishonest district attorney, a murder made to look like a suicide, and a betrayal by a trusted friend, before he learns the truth.
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Dashiell Hammett
Stanley Ridges
Police Chief Scott Anderson
Worthington Miner
Franklin J. Schaffner
Carl Bixby
Wynne Gibson
Hotcha - conspirator
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Fletcher Markle
Theodore Newton
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Peggy French
Ethel Furman
Richard Purdy
Lester Furman
Hildy Parks
Doris Anderson
Robert Emhardt
DA Ted Carroll
United States release November 14, 1949
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English
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United States · November 14, 1949
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