James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.

• First National Pictures
• James Cagney
• Margaret Lindsay
• Ann Dvorak
• Robert Armstrong
• Barton MacLane
• Lloyd Nolan
• William Harrigan
• Russell Hopton