Directed by John Rawlins Screenplay by Charles Martin Paul Kelly as 'Scoop' Hanlon Constance Moore as Stephanie Kirkland William Lundigan as Larry Dearden Edwin Stanley as Dr. Carroll Selmer Jackson as Frank Baldrich Billy Wayne as 'Vic' George Cooper as 'Jake' P.J. Kelly as Edwards - the Butler Florence Wix as Linda Baldrich Harlan Briggs as Frank Kendall - Editor Pat C. Flick as Nikolaus Popoulos - Inventor John Harmon as Baldrich's Guard Guy Usher as Police Inspector McDonald Directed by Tay Garnett Screenplay by Dorothy Parker Alan Campbell Frank R. Adams Fredric March as Sam Wye Joan Bennett as Kay Kerrigan Ralph Bellamy as Ben Blodgett Ann Sothern as Jean Livingstone Sidney Blackmer as Thomas Bruhme II Thomas Mitchell as Commissioner Blackton Robert Elliott as Detective George Faulkner Joyce Compton as Mrs. Johnson Richard Tucker as John Johnson Dorothy Comingore as Ann (credited as Linda Winters) Wilma Francis as Judy