

"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.
Mitchell Leisen
Johnson

Charles Cahill Wilson
Taft

Henry Travers
Mac Mason

Noel Madison
Anderson

Paul Harvey
Capt. Seaver

Olive Tell
Mrs. Madison