""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.
Richard Barthelmess
Tony Mako
Ray Milland
Carl Barrett
Joe Morrison
Eddie
Gertrude Michael
Mrs. Sylvia Temple
Helen Mack
Helen
Dorothy Tree
Mae Danish
Roscoe Karns
Johnson
Charles C. Wilson
Taft
Henry Travers
Mac Mason
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.
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