"A sweet, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire."
Peter Lorre
as Janos 'Johnny' Szabo
Evelyn Keyes
as Helen Williams
Don Beddoe
as Lt. James 'Jim' O'Hara
George E. Stone
as Dinky
John Tyrrell
as Watts
Cy Schindell
as Benson
Stanley Brown
as Harry
James Seay
as Jeff Jeffries
Warren Ashe
as Johnson, Reporter
Charles C. Wilson
as Chief O'Brien
George McKay
as Terry Finnegan
Ernie Adams
as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Sam Ash
as Mike Cary - Pilot (uncredited)
Al Bridge
as Flop House Manager (uncredited)
Mary Currier
as Burn Treatment Nurse (uncredited)
John Dilson
as Man at Dock Asking for a Light (uncredited)
Sarah Edwards
as Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)
Eddie Foster
as Street Passerby Lighting Cigarette (uncredited)
Joel Friedkin
as Charlie Perkins (uncredited)
Jack Gardner
as Man Calling in Fire (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Al Hill
as Man Cooking in his Room (uncredited)
Walter Merrill
as Joe (uncredited)
David Oliver
as Ship's Steward (uncredited)
Ralph Peters
as Hotel Cook (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
as Detective at Cary's Office (uncredited)
Frank Reicher
as Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
Claire Rochelle
as Young Shocked Nurse (uncredited)
Lee Shumway
as Police Officer 643 (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
as Jonathan Harris - Watchmaker (uncredited)
Edwin Stanley
as Dr. Alex Beckett (uncredited)
Harry Strang
as Clerk Stimson (uncredited)
Ben Taggart
as Burn Treatment Doctor (uncredited)
Robert Florey
Director
Paul Jarrico
Screenplay
Arthur Levinson
Story
Franz Planer
Director of Photography
Charles Nelson
Editor
Lionel Banks
Art Direction
Morris Stoloff
Music Director
Irving Briskin
Executive Producer
Wallace MacDonald
Producer
Ernie Parks
Makeup Artist
Allen Vincent
Thomas Edward O'Connell
Radio Play
Sidney Cutner
Original Music Composer
Milton Carter
Assistant Director
William Mull
George Cooper
Sound Engineer
Paul Mantz
Stunts
Eugene Joseff
Other
Mischa Bakaleinikoff
Additional Music
Joseph Nussbaum
Ben Oakland
Karol Rathaus
Gregory Stone
Dimitri Tiomkin