While the City Sleeps
Top 10 Billed Cast
Edward Mobley
Dorothy Kyne
Mark Loving
Lt. Burt Kaufman
John Day Griffith
Walter Kyne
Nancy Liggett
Robert Manners
"Honest" Harry Kritzer
Mildred Donner
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