When young Tommy (Bobby Driscoll) sneaks out of his bedroom and onto the fire escape of his tenement building, he sees two neighbors, Joe (Paul Stewart) and Jean Kellerson (Ruth Roman), murder a sailor (Richard Benedict). Tommy, who has been reprimanded before by his parents for telling phony stories, informs his mother (Barbara Hale) of the crime, but she does not believe him. After his mother leaves to attend to a sick relative, Tommy worries that the Kellersons will try to kill him, too.
Barbara Hale
Bobby Driscoll
Arthur Kennedy
Paul Stewart
Ruth Roman
Director Ted Tetzlaff, Fred Fleck (assistant)
Screenplay Mel Dinelli
Producer Frederic Ullman Jr.
Cinematography Robert De Grasse, William O. Steiner
Editing Frederic Knudtson
Music Roy Webb
Distributor RKO Radio Pictures
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