
""Get ready to die, you rat! You sent me to the gallows for a measly two hundred bucks!""
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
Tony Mako

Carl Barrett

Eddie

Mrs. Sylvia Temple

Helen

Mae Danish

Johnson

Taft

Mac Mason

Anderson

Capt. Seaver

Mrs. Madison

Pa Herman

Ma

Little Girl