Guilty Bystander is a 1950 English-language Crime Drama movie directed by Joseph Lerner and produced by Rex Carlton and Joseph Lerner. Guilty bystander stars Zachary Scott in the lead role along with an ensemble cast including Faye Emerson, Mary Boland, Sam Levene, J. Edward Bromberg, Kay Medford and Jed Prouty. The screenplay is written by Don Ettlinger which is inspired from the novel by Wade Miller Robert Allison Wade. The music was composed by Dimitri Tiomkin. Cinematography was done by Russell Harlan and Gerald Hirschfeld and editing by Geraldine Lerner. The film has a running time of 91 minutes. It was released on 21st April 1950. Distribution rights for the movie were acquired by Film Classics. A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.