Story :When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
Cast
Humphrey BogartDr. Maurice Xavier
Rosemary LaneJoan Vance
Wayne MorrisWalter Wichita Garrett
Dennis MorganDr. Rhodes
John LitelDr. Flegg
Lya LysAngela
Huntz HallPinky
Charles C. WilsonDet. Kincaid
Vera LewisMiss Sweetman
Howard HickmanChairman
Olin HowlandUndertaker
Cliff SaumDetective Sergeant Moran
Creighton HaleHotel Manager
John RidgelyRodgers
Joseph CrehanEditor
Glenn LanganInterne
William HopperInterne
Nat CarrReporter (uncredited)
Loia CheaneyNurse (uncredited)
Eddie GrahamHospital Attendant (uncredited)
John HarronReporter (uncredited)
Mike LallyTaxi Driver (uncredited)
Frank MayoAttorney (uncredited)
John 'Skins' MillerNewspaper Vendor (uncredited)
Jack MowerPoliceman Guarding Rodgers' Room (uncredited)