My Buddy

Litel is a priest delivering testimony before the Washington Post-War Planning Committee. He talks about his friend Barry and the man's experiences after returning home from World War I, a story we see in flashback. Barry returns from the war, and unable to get a job, is forced to put off his marriage to Roberts. He gets involved in bootlegging and ends up taking a rap for his boss and going to prison where he forms a gang. Upon his release from prison, a gang war erupts and he ends up killing Granach and is then himself killed in a rooftop shootout. The film ends with Litel once more before the committee, explaining how a note from Barry was left to the priest, be...