A far-fetched melodrama, based on the popular play by Willard Mack and the novel by H.H. Van Loan, in which a petty criminal discovers that he's the illegitimate son of a well-placed political wife. Nickie Elkins (Richard Barthelmess) was raised from childhood by career criminal Buck
Gordon (Montagu Love), but as a young man he learns a shocking truth: His mother is Mrs. Bancroft (Alice Joyce), the wife of the Governor (Robert T. Haines). Buck urges Nickie to remember that if he ever kills another gangster, he can blackmail Mrs. Bancroft into helping him. Although Nickie,
who's in love with cabaret girl Dot (Lina Basquette), has already followed Buck into a life of...
Released:
1928
Rated:
NR
Length:
75 mins