"A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses."
Richard Egan
as William Keating
Jan Sterling
as Madge Pitts
Dan Duryea
as John Jacob Masters
Julie Adams
as Dee
Walter Matthau
as Al Dahlke
Charles McGraw
as Lt. Anthony Vosnick
Sam Levene
as Howard Rysdale
Mickey Shaughnessy
as Solly Pitts
Harry Bellaver
as Benjy Karp
Nick Dennis
as Midget
Joe Downing
as Eddie 'Cockeye' Cook
Ned Wever
as Captain Sid Wallace
Billy M. Greene
as "Monk" Mohler
John McNamara
as Judge
Amzie Strickland
as Mrs. Cavanagh
Mickey Hargitay
as Big John
Len Lesser
as Sam (Uncredited)
Arnold Laven
Director
Herschel Burke Gilbert
Music Arranger
Joseph Gershenson
Music Supervisor
William J. Keating
Book
Richard Carter
Phil Bowles
Assistant Director
Leslie I. Carey
Sound
Clifford Stine
Visual Effects
Frank H. Wilkinson
Bud Westmore
Makeup Artist
Albert Zugsmith
Producer
Alexander Golitzen
Art Direction
Julia Heron
Set Decoration
Russell F. Schoengarth
Editor
Robert Emmet Smith
Bill Thomas
Costume Design
Lawrence Roman
Screenplay
Fred Jackman Jr.
Director of Photography
Russell A. Gausman