Overview
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy, and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of six masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.
Cast
- Wallace Beery as Louis 'Slaughterhouse' Scorpio
- Lewis Stone as Richard 'Newt' Newton - Attorney at Law
- Johnny Mack Brown as Hank Rogers
- Jean Harlow as Anne Courtland
- Marjorie Rambeau as Peaches
- Paul Hurst as Nick Mizoski - the Gouger
- Clark Gable as Carl Luckner
- Ralph Bellamy as Johnny Franks
- John Miljan as Joe Colimo
- DeWitt Jennings as Chief of Police Donlin