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.

• Paramount Pictures
• Richard Barthelmess
• Ray Milland
• Joe Morrison
• Gertrude Michael
• Helen Mack
• Dorothy Tree
• Roscoe Karns
• Charles C. Wilson