Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
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Joan Woodbury as Rita Adams
Jack La Rue as Mickey Roman
Linda Ware as Donna Andrews
John Archer as Bob Elliott
Vince Barnett as Scribbler, a Petty Forger
Alan Ladd as Jimmy Kelly aka Bill Dugan
Gavin Gordon as Kurt Parrish
Phillip Trent as Harold DeWitt
William Halligan as Police Chief Flynn
George Pembroke as Clarence DeWitt
Selmer Jackson as District Attorney
Kenneth Harlan as Jim Adams
Bryant Washburn as Attorney Bruce King
Stephen Chase as Detective Joe Kent
Robert Strange as Lou Wood
Brooks Benedict as Frankie Bailey, Key Witness (uncredited)
James Blaine as Rita's Boss (uncredited)
Lynton Brent as 2nd Bailiff (uncredited)
Peter Caldwell as Bob as a Boy (uncredited)
Joe Conti as Mickey as a Boy (uncredited)
Henry Hall as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
John Ince as 2nd Judge (uncredited)
Lloyd Ingraham as 1st Judge (uncredited)
Carl M. Leviness as Juryman (uncredited)
Murdock MacQuarrie as 1st Bailiff (uncredited)
Juanita Quigley as Rita as a Child (uncredited)
Fred Santley as Henry Jones - Motorist (uncredited)
Gayne Whitman as Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Carleton Young as Gangster Pokey Martin (uncredited)