• 
  Robert Siodmak

  regizor

• 
  Burt Lancaster

  Ole Andersen / Pete
• 
  Ava Gardner

  Kitty Collins
• 
  Vince Barnett

  Charleston
• 
  William Conrad

  Max
• 
  Virginia Christine

  Lilly Harmon Lubinsky
• 
  John Miljan

  Jake the Rake
• 
  Jeff Corey

  'Blinky' Franklin

• 
  Albert Dekker

  Big Jim Colfax
• 
  Bill Walker

  Sam
• 
  Howard Freeman

  Brentwood Police Chief
• 
  Phil Brown

  Nick Adams
• 
  Edmond O'Brien

  Jim Reardon
• 
  Charles McGraw

  Al
• 
  Al Hill

  Diner customer

• 
  Ernie Adams

  Hood with cane
• 
  Vera Lewis

  Ma Hirsch
• 
  Jack Cheatham

  Police driver
• 
  Sam Levene

  Lt. Sam Lubinsky
• 
  Charles D. Brown

  Packy Robinson - Ole's Manager
• 
  Jack Lambert (I)

  'Dum-Dum' Clarke
• 
  Donald MacBride

  R.S. Kenyon