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)
