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  Jules Dassin

  regizor

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  Albert Maltz

  scenarist
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  Malvin Wald

  scenarist

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  Barry Fitzgerald

  Detectiv Locotenent Dan Muldoon
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  Howard Duff

  Frank Niles
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  Dorothy Hart

  Ruth Morrison
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  G. Pat Collins

  Charles Meade (parole officer)
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  Arthur O'Connell

  Sgt. Shaeffer

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  James Gregory

  Ptl. Albert Hicks
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  Ralph Brooks

  Detectiv
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  David Opatoshu

  Sgt. Dave Miller
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  John Marley

  Managing Editor
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  Ted de Corsia

  Willie Garzah aka Willie the Harmonica
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  Molly Picon

  Soda-selling shopkeeper
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  Edwin Jerome

  Publisher

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  Nehemiah Persoff

  Smiling man departing subway
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  Paul Ford

  Henry Fowler
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  Kathleen Freeman

  Stout girl on elevated train
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  Bruce Gordon

  Cop at Williamsburg Bridge
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  Don Taylor

  Det. Jimmy Halloran
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  Enid Markey

  Mrs. Edgar Hylton
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  Grover Burgess

  Mr. Batory
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  Frank Conroy

  Capt. Sam Donahue
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  Mark Hellinger

  Narrated By (voice)
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  House Jameson

  Dr. Lawrence Stoneman
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  Adelaide Klein

  Mrs. Batory
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  Tom Pedi

  Detective Perelli
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  Anne Sargent

  Janet Halloran
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  Don Taylor

  James Halloran

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  Paul Weatherwax

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