Ambitious to the point of ruthlessness, Tracy is a ship's stoker who is fired for insulting a drunken female passenger (not unlike O'Neill's "Hairy Ape"). He gets a job as a carnival barker, touting a sideshow owned by Walthall, who played The Little Colonel in Griffith's classic silent
film THE BIRTH OF A NATION. The sideshow depicts scenes of Hell as originally envisioned by Dante in his
Inferno. Through huckstering methods, Tracy puts the show on a paying basis, marrying Walthall's daughter, Trevor. They have a son, but Tracy ignores his family and goes pell-mell after wealth,
packing an unsafe amusement pier with customers and bribing an inspector to loo...
Released:
1935
Rated:
NR
Length:
88 mins