Cast
- Edward Arnold as Nero Wolfe, private detective
- Lionel Stander as Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's confidential assistant
- Dennie Moore as Mazie Gray, Archie's fiancée
- Victor Jory as Claude Roberts, Ellen Barstow's fiancé
- Nana Bryant as Sarah Barstow, widow of Professor Barstow
- Joan Perry as Ellen Barstow, daughter of Professor Barstow
- Russell Hardie as Manuel Kimball, son of E.J. Kimball
- Walter Kingsford as E.J. Kimball, international merchant
- Boyd Irwin Sr. as Professor Barstow, college president who dies on the golf course
- John Qualen as Olaf, Wolfe's Scandinavian chef
- Gene Morgan as O'Grady, police lieutenant
- Rita Cansino (Rita Hayworth) as Maria Maringola, client
- Frank Conroy as Nathaniel Bradford, Professor Barstow's doctor
- Juan Torena as Carlo Maringola, metal worker and brother of Maria Maringola
- Martha Tibbetts as the apartment house maid
- Eddy Waller as Golf Starter
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