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Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
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Edward G. Robinson
Arthur Ferguson 'Jonesy' Jones / 'Killer' Mannion
Jean Arthur
Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark
Arthur Hohl
Det. Sgt. Michael F. Boyle
James Donlan
Detective Sergeant Patrick J. Howe
Arthur Byron
Spencer
Wallace Ford
Healy
Donald Meek
Hoyt
Etienne Girardot
Seaver
Edward Brophy
'Slugs' Martin
Paul Harvey
'J.G.' Carpenter
J. Farrell MacDonald
Prison Warden (uncredited)
Ralph Remley
Sam Dixon
Joe Sawyer
Mannion's Thug (uncredited)
Lucille Ball
Bank Employee (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Miss Gower (uncredited)
