The editor of a New York exploitation newspaper meets the wife he had abandoned years ago, while using another name, at a Lonely Hearts ball sponsored by his newspaper. She threatens to expose him as a wife-deserter, wife-beater and an impostor, and, in anger, he pushes her and accidentally kills her. Later, when her body is found, he assigns his protégé reporter to the story, as a good, exploitable follow-up story to the ball. And, then, he is forced to sit back and watch while the reporter slowly tracks down the killer.

Starring:

Broderick Crawford , Donna Reed , John Derek , Rosemary DeCamp , Henry O'Neill , Harry Morgan , James Millican , Griff Barnett , Jonathan Hale

Genre:

Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller