After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.

• Columbia Pictures
• Rita Hayworth
• Bruce Cabot
• Marc Lawrence
• Richard Fiske
• Moroni Olsen
• Norman Willis
• Gene Morgan
• Robert Paige