• 
• William Edwin Barry
• Hooper
  

• 
• George Baxter
• Dwight Sutro
  

• 
• James Bell
• Bill Wilfong
  

• 
• George Christie
• Judge Beasley
  Ramsay Joliffe
  

• 
• John Costello
• Mullaly
  

• 
• Ellen Dorr
• Gwennie Wilfong
  

• 
• Melvyn Douglas
• Ace Wilfong
  

• 
• Jane Houston
• Mrs. Dorothea Joliffe
  

• 
• John Irwin
• Fresno Kelly
  

• 
• Kay Johnson
• Jan Ashe
  

• 
• Joseph Kennedy
• Dean
  Foreman of Jury
  

• 
• Hugh Lester
• Carroll
  

• 
• Charles F. Lewis
• Big Mack
  

• 
• Lester Lonergan
• Stephen Ashe
  

• 
• Frank McGlynn
• Nolan, District Attorney
  

• 
• John Morris
• Mullins
  

• 
• John Daly Murphy
• Abe Sloan
  

• 
• Walter Powers
• Red
  

• 
• Adelaide Prince
• Mrs. Deborah Ashe
  

• 
• Edward Roseman
• Nelson
  

• 
• Lou Turner
• Jack
  A Gambler
  

• 
• Ann Winston
• Grace Carling
  

• 
• E. J. Barrett
• Bailiff
  

• 
• George Benson
• Clerk of the Court
  

• 
• Charles Stanley
• Patrolman
  

• 
• Spencer Stoddart
• Another Officer
  

• 
• Willard Mack
• Writer
  

• 
• Adela Rogers St. John
• Source Material (from the novel)
  

• 
• George Cukor
• Staging
  

• 
• William A. Brady
• Producer