| Dana Andrews | Edward Mobley |
| Ida Lupino | Mildred Donner |
| Rhonda Fleming | Dorothy Kyne |
| Sally Forrest | Nancy Liggett |
| Thomas Mitchell | Jon Day Griffith |
| Vincent Price | Walter Kyne |
| Howard Duff | Lt. Burt Kaufman |
| George Sanders | Mark Loving |
| John Barrymore Jr. | Robert Manners |
| Vladimir Sokoloff | George ``Pop'' Pilski |
| Robert Warwick | Amos Kyne |
A serial killer is on the loose in New York City. Dubbed ''The Lipstick Killer,'' he has also strangely become the center of a power struggle between three division chiefs in a media empire. The directive from their inexperienced boss, Walter Kyne, is simple: Whoever catches the killer gets promoted to executive editor. But newspaper editor John Day Griffith has one distinct advantage in the form of crack reporter Edward Mobley .
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