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Promoter Frankie Christopher, being grilled by police in the murder of model Vicky Lynn, recalls in flashback: First meeting her as a waitress, Frankie decides to parlay her beauty into social acceptance and a lucrative career. He succeeds only too well: shes on the eve of deserting him for Hollywood...when someone kills her. Now Frankie gets the feeling that Inspector Ed Cornell is determined to pin the killing on him and only him. Hes right. And the only one he can turn to for help is Jill, the victims sister, whos been cool toward him...
"Big Ed" Cornell, a police inspector/detective, with an unmatched record of convictions and a man who believes in justice, deliberately allows the murderer of Vicky Lynn, former-waitress turned aspiring-Hollywood-starlet, his freedom, while "Big Ed" leaves no stone unturned in trying to pin the killing on Frankie Christopher, a sports promoter who has more than one business going at all times, usually self-promotion. "Big Ed" stalks his victim like a bird-of-prey, and makes no secret that he will put Frankie on the hot spot,", the electric chair. (When this film was previewed at the Twentieth Century-Fox projection room in New York City, on October 18, 1941, for the industry trade-press, the title of the film was "Hot Spot." When it had its national first-release, on October 31, 1941, the title had been changed to the title of the novel it was based on.)
Betty Grable
Jill Lynn
Victor Mature
Frankie Christopher
Carole Landis
Vicky Lynn
Laird Cregar
Ed Cornell
William Gargan
Jerry MacDonald
Alan Mowbray
Robin Ray
Allyn Joslyn
Larry Evans
Elisha Cook Jr.
Harry Williams
Chick Chandler
Reporter
Cyril Ring
Reporter
Morris Ankrum
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Charles Lane
Keating
Frank Orth
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Gregory Gaye
Headwaiter
May Beatty
Lady Handel
Brooks Benedict
Nightclub Patron
Edward Biby
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Stanley Blystone
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