A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.

• Bert E. Friedlob Productions
• RKO Radio Pictures
• Dana Andrews
• Joan Fontaine
• Sidney Blackmer
• Arthur Franz
• Philip Bourneuf
• Edward Binns
• Shepperd Strudwick
• Robin Raymond