John Gilbert is cast against type as a rum-running gangster in this riveting gangland saga directed by Mervyn LeRoy (Little Caesar). While planning his wedding to socialite Marjorie Channing (Leila Hyams), dashing playboy Jack Thomas (Gilbert) learns from his guardian that his real name is Giacomo Tomasulo, and that he's the son of a notorious racketeer. Pressured by his brother Frank (Louis Wolheim), the sibling he never knew he had, Jack gives up life among the swells and becomes a member of the gang. Dumped by his fiancée, Jack becomes an embittered hood, as his knack for the family business entangles him in bootlegging, murder and a rival mob's plan to bump him off for killing one of their own.