
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad. It is Crawford's hope that the song will reach out and touch his long-lost childhood sweetheart. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby was based on James Edward Grant's short story Trouble in B Flat; echoes of the basic premise later resurfaced in the 1957 "A" picture The Girl Can't Help It.

as Michael G. 'Sonny' McGann

as Robert Lee 'Bob' Gunther

as Linda Carroll

as Big Foot Louie

as Mama McGann

as Magda Delys

as Boston

as Bugs

as Roundhouse

as Nails

as Joe

as Annie

as Landlady (uncredited)